Thoughts and Quotes
When I posted the sentence “I don’t want to believe, I want to know” on my social media profiles, I was informed that it is by Carl Sagan. This, however, is an erroneous attribution. He never said or wrote it.
Quotations by Paulo Bittencourt (1/6)
Books Liberated from Religion and Wasting Time on God
1
“If it doesn’t extinguish natural catastrophes, diseases, violence, wars and famine, of what use is the belief in God?”
2
“Train up children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not be deceived by religions.”
3
“God can everything, including not exist.”
4
“There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.”
5
“Feel free to address your prayers and supplications to me. It will have the same effect as addressing them to God — with the small difference that, if they reach me and it’s possible for me, I’ll try to help you.”
6
“The existence of believers and nonbelievers is evidence of the nonexistence of God.”
7
“If God exists, it’s not necessary to believe in him, and if he doesn’t, even less so.”