No matter where on Earth you are, you know there is one and only one large moon orbiting the Earth. Science is going outside your house at night and seeing here is one large moon orbiting the Earth. "Here is the difference between religion and science. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called 'religion.'" "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called 'insanity'. "The same people that wrote the bible thought the world was flat. Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history." sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. "You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do. but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right." - Chuck Easttom "Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus (Greek philosopher, BCE 341-270) Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. "If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another." - Epicurus "I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get." - Napoleon Bonaparte "What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!" - Pope Leo X (As attributed by John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, in The Pageant of Popes, p. "And you don't understand why I have doubts?" "You believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. "FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE INQUISITION!") By Michael Rivero
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