Thoughts and Quotes
Quotes by Paulo Bittencourt
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
“There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.”
3
“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.”
4
“Train up children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not be deceived by religions.”
5
“If God exists, it’s not necessary to believe in him, and if he doesn’t, even less so.”
6
“The existence of believers and nonbelievers is evidence of the nonexistence of God.”
7
“If Humanity can be saved and this Pale Blue Dot transformed into a really good place to live, at least without poverty and wars, then not by people who see life as worthless and spend it dreaming of mansions of gold in an imaginary world, but by people who don’t flee from reality and are guided not by primitive mythological beings, but by reason: freethinkers.”
8
“I don’t reject God, because for me to be able to reject him he first would have to exist.”
9
“Religion is the most effective form of manipulation.”
10
“Disbelief is fundamental to the existence of religions. Where it’s forbidden to disbelieve, there is no religious freedom.”
11
“In the formation of hypocrites, of all ideologies Christianity is the champion.”
12
“Why does God speak only with those who believe in God? Why do angels appear only to those who believe in angels? Why do demons possess only those who believe in demons? And why do spirits visit only those who believe in spirits? For the same reasons why aliens kidnap only those who believe in flying saucers.”
13
“For God to be dead, he first would have to have existed.”
14
“If believers don’t respect the beliefs of believers, why should I respect the beliefs of believers?”
15
“If you can make people believe that there is an invisible man in the sky, you can make people believe anything, even that he needs money.”
16
“To be a conservative is to enjoy being a loser. Conservatives have never been able to make the world stop changing.”
17
“Religion is the best form of domination. The biblical accounts about God’s wrath are so cruel that it doesn’t take a genius to realize they were invented for the purpose of frightening. A frightened people is easily controlled.”
18
“It’s indisputable that Christianity is founded on human sacrifice and filicide. What’s the death of the Son on the cross if not human sacrifice to placate the wrath of the Father?”
19
“Anyone who believes in a bunch of nonsense can’t stand lucidity.”
20
“You worship the right god of the right translation of the right book of the right branch of the right religion and in the right way. Am I right?”
21
“If, as religious people say, the existence of the Universe cannot be explained naturalistically and its origin needs to be supernatural, there is no need for God to exist. In the supernatural, anything is possible. The Universe may, therefore, very well have supernaturally created itself.”
22
“If religion had anything to do with truth and the truth is only one, by now believers already would have identified in which religion the truth is, and, instead of thousands, there would be only one religion.”
23
“Religion is the illusion of having answers to questions to which no one has answers.”
24
“I respect people’s right to believe imbecilities, not the imbecilities people have the right to believe.”
25
“God: the supreme artificial unintelligence.”
26
“Christianity. Religion that preaches that the Universe was created by an invisible being who put you in the world as guilty of two crimes, even though you didn’t ask to be born: a bite on a forbidden fruit, 6,000 years before you were born, and the death of his son, 2,000 years before you were born. For these two crimes that you didn’t commit, you’ll be tortured in an invisible lake of fire and brimstone, unless you implore the creator of the Universe for forgiveness and worship him.”
27
“Nothing causes more division, hatred and backwardness than religion.”
28
“If it’s obvious that God exists, why do every year thousands of believers, including clergymen, stop believing in God?”
29
“If your religion doesn’t make you be good, something is wrong with it, and if you need religion to be good, something is wrong with you.”
30
“Those who are not satisfied with anything less than being 100% intellectually honest are atheists, because Atheism is the only stance free of incoherences and contradictions.”
31
“Atheism is a natural result of intellectual honesty.”
32
“It doesn’t take disaster, tragedy or catastrophe to make you feel that God doesn’t exist. Biting your tongue, hitting your shin or falling on your butt is more than enough.”
33
“Galaxy collisions, supernovae, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, neutron stars, inhospitable planets, comets, asteroids, meteorites, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones and Evolution are incontestable evidence that the Universe is not the project of any designer, unless the project was to start and abandon it to its own devices.”
34
“To say ‘God exists’ is evidence that God doesn’t exist. If God existed, his existence would be so obvious that there would be no need to say ‘God exists’.”
35
“If God exists, it’s not the human being who has to feel bad for not believing, but God for giving the human being reasons not to believe.”
36
“The Bible is so evil that the Koran is based on it.”
37
“Where there is no reflection, there is manipulation.”
38
“Religions have nothing to do with truth, and everything to do with geography, ethnicity, tradition, child indoctrination, group pressure and persuasion.”
39
“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”
40
“Only Atheists don’t teach lies about God.”
41
“Deep down, religious people know they believe in absurdities. That’s why it’s important to them that as many people as possible believe in those absurdities, since that makes those absurdities seem less absurd.”
42
“What would you call someone who says that he loves you, but also that, if you don’t love him back, he’ll torture you in a lake of fire and brimstone?”
43
“I’m as afraid of the hell of Christianity as Christians are afraid of the hell of Islam.”
44
“Never accuse a Christian of not practicing what the Bible teaches. Give thanks! When Christians practiced what the Bible teaches, the world was much worse.”
45
“A liberal Christian is a de facto atheist who still is a little afraid of Hell.”
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