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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Thomas Edison
"Religion is all bunk."
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end."
- Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931).
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Anaxagoras, Greek philosopher (500?-428? BCE).
. . . probably the first freethinker we know of to be condemned for his beliefs." "He regarded the conventional gods as mythic abstractions endowed with anthropomorphic attributes. His writings led him to a dungeon, charged with impiety, probably about the year 450 B.C.E." Only the intervention of the great statesman and orator Pericles saved Anaxagoras from a death sentence. He had to pay a fine and, according to some accounts, was banished. He lived his final years in exile.
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792-1822).
Thrown out of Oxford University for writing the essay, The Necessity of Atheism in 1810.
"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced."
"It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it."
David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (1711-1776).
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless . . . its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." [Of Miracles]
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
"When I hear a man is religious, I conclude that he is a rascal, although I have known some instances of very good men being religious."
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, British born actor, director, and producer (1889-1977).
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none."
Quoted in Manual of a Perfect Atheist.
Albert Camus, French author, Existential Philosopher (1913-60).
Preached a heroic atheism. People should reject God defiantly in order to pour out all their loving solicitude upon mankind. [A History of God]
Jean Paul Sartre, French Existential philosopher and author (1905-80).
Sartre insisted that even if God existed [which he did not believe], it was still necessary to reject him, since the idea of God negates our freedom. Traditional religion tells us that we must conform to God's idea of humanity to become fully human. Instead, we must see human beings as liberty incarnate. [A History of God]
Burrhus Frederick "B. F." Skinner, American Psychologist (1904-1990).
In an interview with CBS radio a few weeks before his death, Skinner was asked if he feared death. He replied, "I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying."
H. P. Lovecraft, American author (1890-1937).
"H. P. Lovecraft was strongly influenced, not only by his mother but also by the books he read. . . . At five, he . . . (read) . . . a junior edition of The Arabian Nights. He at once fell in love with the glories of medieval Islam and spent hours playing Arab. . . . One effect of dabbling in non-Christian traditions was to make Lovecraft skeptical of the faith of his fathers. Before he reached his fifth birthday anniversary, young Lovecraft announced that he no longer believed in Santa Claus. Further private thought convinced him that arguments for the existence of God suffered the same weaknesses as those for Santa. At five, Lovecraft was placed in the infant class of the Sunday school of the venerable First Baptist Meeting House on College Hill. The results were not what the elders expected. When the feeding of Christian martyrs to the lions came up, Lovecraft shocked the class by gleefully taking the side of the lions. " From a biography by Sprague De Camp
". . . His skeptical view of the supernatural - his nontheism - and his love of the Classical world were not the only lasting passions formed in his childhood.
". . . he embraced eighteenth-century rationalism, which confirmed him in his atheistic materialism."
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Jean Meslier, French erstwhile priest (1678-1733).
A country priest who led an exemplary life, he died an atheist. He left behind a memoir which was circulated by Voltaire. This expressed his disgust with humanity and his inability to believe in God. Newton's infinite space, Meslier believed, was the only eternal reality: nothing but matter existed. Religion was a device used by the rich to oppress the poor and render them powerless. Christianity was distinguished by its particularly ludicrous doctrines, such as the Trinity and the Incarnation. [A History of God]
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Christianity
now maintains that God did not create evil, He (evidently God is a male) created chaos. So there was God all alone and for some reason decided to create a chaotic world. Any ideas why God, who have created the world any way he wanted, chose to create a world in chaos. As parents, would you, if you were normal, sane, mentally balanced, and had a choice, create a life of chaos for your children? No? why? Yes? Why?
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Joseph McCabe, English anti-religion campaigner (1867-1955).
One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today. His many works -- he wrote nearly 250 books -- could constitute a library of Atheism by themselves.
Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896.
Not long afterwards, he began to write -- first against the priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association, and was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10, 1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was "He was a rebel to his last day." [The Secular Web]
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Other Famous Atheists or Agnostics :
Woody Allen – Actor
Dr. Melvin Konner
Michael Kinsley
William B. Davis
Gillian Anderson
Madison Arnold
Paul Kurtz
Milan Kundera
Russell Baker
Iain M. Banks
Alexander I. Lebed
Richard Leakey – Anthropoligist
Greg Bear – Science Fiction Author
Steve Benson
Stanislaw Lem
Mike Leigh
Jim Bohanan
Sir Herman Bondi
Tom Leykis
Michael Martin
Dr. Nathaniel Branden
Marlon Brando – Actor
Jonathan Meades
Antonio Mendoza
John Byrne
Dean Cameron
Marvin Minsky – Scientist
Hans Moravec
Fidel Castro
**** Cavett – TV Actor
Dr. Taslima Nasreen
Ted Nelson
Noam Chomsky - Scientist
Paul and Patricia Churchland
Kai Nielsen
Camille Paglia
Alexander ****burn
John Conway
Jean Luc Godard
Julia Phillips
Michael Crichton – Author
Dr. Francis Crick
Paul Pfalzner
Paula Poundstone – Comedian
Crowded House – Rock Group
Ron Dakron
Katha Pollitt
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Daniel Dennett – Author
Amanda Donohoe
Paul Provenza
Brian Ritchie
Greg Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich
Rick Reynolds
Al Goldstein
Garth Ennis
Brian Eno – Musician
Richard Rorty
John Sayles
Nuno Filipe
Filter
Pamela Sargent
George H. Smith
James Forman
Jodie Foster – Actress
J.J.C. Smart
Mira Sorvino – Actress
Ed Fredkin
Janeane Garofalo – Comedian
Lee Smolin
J. Michael Straczynski
Simone de Beauvoir, French author, feminist, and philosopher (1908-1986).
Linus Carl Pauling, American chemist (1901-1994).
Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader and theorist (1893-1976).
Francois Mitterrand, French Politician (1916-1996). Publicly called himself an atheist on several occasions.
Spalding Gray
Joe Haldeman
Gore Vidal – Author
James A. Haught
Bill Hayden
Annika Walter
Sir Alfred Hitch**** – Author
Christopher Hitchens
Nicholas Humphrey
Dr. Ian Wilmut
William Shatner – Actor
Neil Kinnock
W. P. Kinsella
John Mortimer
Mr. Lavanam
Paul Krassner
Stanley Kubrick – Director
Nick Zedd
Ring Lardner Jr.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Tom Lehrer – Comedian
Salman Rushdie – Author of "The Statnic Verses"
Leonard Peikoff
Gerda Lerner
Michael Lewis
Stephen Jay Gould
Mark Pauline
Todd McFarlane – Author
Sir Ian McKellen
Edward O. Wilson
Adam Corolla
Randy Newman – Musician
Jack Nicholson – Actor
Frank Mullen
Douglas Coupland
Arthur Miller – Author
Mike Mills
Robin Lane Fox
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Gary Numan – Musician
Ronald Numbers
Zarkov
Vladimir Pozner
Ferdinand Piech
Roman Polanski – Author
Lionel Jospin
James Randi
Chris Robinson
Terry Pratchett
Harvey Fierstein
David Feherty
Mona Sahlin
Ron Reagan Jr.
Larry Flynt – Publisher
Antony Flew
Jyoti Shankar
Neil Rogers
Nat Hentoff
Pierre Boulez
Michael Smith
Sebastião Salgado
Billy Bragg
Mikhail Gorbachev
Benjamin Spock
Robert I. Sherman
Greg Graffin
Wendy Kaminer
Burt Lancaster, American actor (1913-1994).
Robert Smith
Bill Gates – Founder – Microsoft
Derek Humphry
Ingmar Bergman
Rodney Stark
Stephen Chapman
Richard Dawkins
Warren Buffett - Businessman
Katharine Hepburn – Actress
Florence King
Dr. Dean Edell
Douglas Adams – Author
Pierre Berton
Penn Jillette
Paul Edwards
Harlan Ellison - Scinece Fiction Author
Susie Bright
Howard Hughes, American manufacturer, film producer, and recluse (1905-1976).
Jack Germond
Dave Matthews – Musician
Arthur C. Clarke – Science Fiction Author
Quentin Crisp
Harry Harrison
Christopher Reeve – Actor
Albert Ellis
Clive Barker
Teller – Comedian
Michael Crichton – Author
Vic Chesnutt
Billy Joel – Musician
Max von Sydow – Actor
Thomas J. Altizer
Asia Carrera
Virginia Woolf, English author (1882-1941).
Paul Watson
Peter William Atkins
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.)
Sir John Gielgud – Actor
Bruce Wright
Richard Feynman, American physicist (1918-1988).
Shulamit Aloni
Nina Hartley
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – Author
Dan Barker
David Cronenberg
XTC
Steven Weinberg
Robert Frost, American poet (1874-1963).
Marie Curie, Polish-born French chemist and physicist (1867-1934).
Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English author (1857-1924).
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Luigi Cascioli, after having irrefutably demonstrated in his book "The Fable of Christ that the facts presented as true and historical in the "Holy Scriptures" are in reality false, first of all those in regard to the figure of Jesus, called the Christ, which has been based on a certain John of Gamala, son of Judas the Galilean of the cast of Hasmoneans, acknowledged as descending directly from the house of David, concludes his studies with a DENUNCIATION-LAWSUIT against the Catholic Church, in the person of Don Enrico Righi, parish-rector of the ex. Diocese of Bagnoregio (VT), for abuse of the popular credulity (Art. 661 C.P.) and for impersonation.
The formal complaint was lodged at the Court of Viterbo on the 11th of september 2002. Thanks to the intervention of the Court of Perugia regarding the absurd request of dismissal by Public Prosecutor Dr, Renzo Petroselli, Don Enrico Righi has been added into the registry of inquiry ( see lawsuit: account of facts at the Court of Perugia on 24/03/2004). After the absurd request of dismissal received from the Court of Viterbo the lawsuit has been tranferred to the Court of Strasbourg following the petition presented by Luigi Cascioli to the European Court of Human Rights.
http://www.luigicascioli.eu/en_1.htm
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Some belief systems probably were invented by highly idealistic persons really wanting to help many people, but some, highly competitive, others probably were designed only to get the maximum possible money from the gullible "sheeple" so as to provide sufficient income for their clergy. Just look at the clergy you know; do they look like they are starving? What is their lifestyle? Always compare the actual results with the claims in their sales literature, and beware of the carrots/stick approaches to make you join THEIR group, and not one of the many other ones. At one time it was very dangerous in some countries to be different from the majority!
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
PROOF PLEASE
We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a 'this year's fact'. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years. Their reputation for 'truth and veracity' in the neighborhood where they resided is wholly unknown to us. Give us a new miracle, and substantiate it by witnesses who still have the cheerful habit of living this world. Do not send us to Jericho to hear the winding horns, nor put us in the fire with Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego. Do not compel us to navigate the sea with Captain Jonah, nor dine with Mr. Ezekiel. There is no sort of use in sending us fox-hunting with Samson. We have positively lost all interest in that little speech so eloquently delivered by Balaam's inspired donkey. It is worse than useless to show us fishes with money in their mouths, and call our attention to vast multitudes stuffing themselves with five crackers and two sardines. We demand a new miracle, and we demand it now. Let the church furnish at least one, or forever hold her
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