Knockout Quote No 434, Maguire, This ‘nice God’ hypothesis does run into some knotty problemsCCKQ No 676, Gerry, Fundamentalists deliberately strive to build themselves a wall of Bibles to keep it at bayMcKellar, If he ever did return, it would be as a fifty-pound lump of bone and frozen jerkyMadison, Why isn’t membership in the Catholic Church down to ZERO by now?So when my spirit starts to sag, I hustle out my highest dragThere’s no business like show business, the costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the propsI feel pretty, oh so pretty, and I pity any girl who isn’t me tonightKnockout Quote No 493, Conner, Christians just live in a different time zone than the rest of usCCKQ No 570, Conner, The Bible really needed an editor with a shredderCCKQ No 571, TBO 100, I read the Bible cover-to-cover as a young man, but I’d rather read Proust in Finnish than do that againCCKQ No 570, Conner, The Bible really needed an editor with a shredderKnockout Quote No 486, Hubbard, the answers are usually blah blah context blah blah mysterious ways blah blah metaphor blah blahKnockout Quote No 468, Conner, It is the Holy Spirit that convinces someone of the truthKnockout Quote No 465, Gericke, Yahweh is like Donald DuckKnockout Quote No 463, Without Malice, The one thing you would never hear such a being say is, Oops, didn’t see that comingKnockout Quote No 462, Without Malice,Thus 2,000 years of Christians going at each other’s throats over idiotic dogmasKnockout Quote No 444, Conner, The Holy Spirit is flitting around the world whispering into the temporal lobes of billions of peopleKnockout Quote No 170, Twain & Bunker, Faoth is…Knockout Quote No 169, Carlin, This guy would have been out on his all-powerful ass a long time agoKnockout Quote No 260, Wilde:Bierce, A theologian is like man going into the depths of a cave at midnightKnockout Quote No 265, RealHarryWiddifield, Your prayers are fart bubbles in the bathtub of the cosmosKnockout Quote No 306, Sayers, “I don’t think you ought to read so much theology,” said Lord PeterKnockout Quote No 308, Tarico, Athletes huddle in prayer before a game, just in case those random bounces aren’t randomKnockout Quote No 380, Zingrone,So, go bowling next Sunday instead of attending church and have a good timeKnockout Quote No 430, Bo Daniel, It’s all part of God’s plan is such a breathtakingly witless defenseKnockout Quote No 420, Congerton,The Holy Fact Checker seems to have been on sick leaveKnockout Quote No 422, Carter, So many theologians love to meet at pubs.Knockout Quote No 424, Lindsay, Religion is believing there’s a diamond the size of a refrigerator buried in your yardKnockout Quote No 428, Carlin,You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci
CCKQ No 534, Sledge, The same evangelical Christians who rely on centuries-old accounts of the post-resurrection appearancesCCKQ No 587, Sledge, I felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted off my shouldersCCKQ No 593, Sledge, What lies down the steps is a basement with nothing in itCCKQ No 595, Sledge, Why didn’t the God of the universe—walking among mankind in the flesh as Jesus—do a sidebar talk on germs?CCKQ No 596, Sledge, Jesus was a Jewish apocalyptic prophet who is now deceasedCCKQ No 597, Sledge, Have you ever met anyone who told you they started reading the Bible and couldn’t put it down?CCKQ No 598 Sledge, It’s an Edward Scissorhands approach to the BibleCCKQ No 599, Sledge, The biblical story of man’s sinfulness and God’s plan redemption doesn’t add up because it’s made upCCKQ No 608, Sledge, What if, right now, I could swallow a pill that would bring my old faith back?CCKQ No 610, Sledge, We must conclude that God is either incapable of effective communicationTin Sledge, The evangelical mental guardrails installed in my headCCKQ No 533, Sledge, Where is the gentleness in the words of Jesus when he speaks of wrathCCKQ No 532, Sledge, I also felt a lightness that I had not felt as a Christian ministerCCKQ No 531, Sledge, Yes, I knew Jesus quite well, but he never mentioned anything about being born againCCKQ No 530, Sledge, How could I keep my eyes closed for decades to such evident fatal flaws in my faith?CCKQ No 525, Sledge, When it comes to religion, perception is more influential than realityTim Sledge, My reasoning was constrained by a very short leash
Knockout Quote No 187, Haught, New England’s Puritans decreed that Quakers must be put to deathCCKQ No 566, Haught, Supernatural religion is a colossal system of falsehoodsKnockout Quote No 183, Haught, they slaughtered the whole population and gave thanks to GodKnockout Quote No 176, Haught, I think humanity has a streak of madness, a precinct of the mindKnockout Quote No 175, Haught, After his death, Pius V was canonized as a saint
Madison, Why isn’t membership in the Catholic Church down to ZERO by now?Knockout Quote No 547, Madison, We sure hope God savors all that glory!Madison, There was no cleansing of the templeCCKQ No 529, Madison, The apostle Paul does his best to keep the wrathful god alive and hovering over hapless humansKnockout Quote No 402, Madison, A world religion is a cult that grabbed major market shareKnockout Quote No 523, Madison, How can a good God, devoid of imperfections, be needy and narcissistic?Knockout Quote No 511, Madison, If only Christians could read the gospels and wise up that they’ve been conned
Knockout Quote No 504, Madison, Don’t Christians ever stop to think that, just maybe, Jesus got the message wrong?Knockout Quote No 502, Madison, Jesus and Paul were among those who fell hard for so much of the strange new revenge-reward theologyKnockout Quote No 499, Madison, How ironic that the Christian religion itself shows no evidence whatever of being intelligently designedKnockout Quote No 498, Madison, What a sorry state of affairs that Christian theology sank to these lowsKnockout Quote No 497, Madison, The theologians who came up with this idea discovered the formula for terrorizing peopleKnockout Quote No 496, Madison, Unbeknown to most of the folks in the pews, the New Testament is a minefield
Knockout Quote No 495, Madison, As an exercise to shock Christians out of faith-complacencyKnockout Quote No 518, Madison, If you believe this, eat that, drink something else, you’ll get eternal lifeKnockout Quote No 516, Madison, When I was a kid, growing up in a rural Indiana church, we all went to kneel at the front of the sanctuarKnockout Quote No 418, Madison, So what is the life expectancy of ole Yahweh’s vast data dumpKnockout Quote No 489, Madison, The gospel writers were story-inventors, they created episodes to advance their theological agendasKnockout Quote No 487, Madison, Fess up, the gospel writers have indulged their weakness for magical thinkingKnockout Quote No 482, Madison, It’s too bad J. K. Rowling didn’t write the gospelsKnockout Quote No 416, Madison, Children ascribe personalities to their teddy bears and talk to themKnockout Quote No 400, Madison, “It’s all part of God’s plan” wears thinKnockout Quote No 398, Madison,This vindictive version of Christian piety can be traced directly to the words of Jesus and the apostle PauKnockout Quote No 393, Madison,Theology was longwinded on what God was like, but short of breath on epistemologyKnockout Quote No 383, Madison, Nearly Headless Nick and Moaning MyrtleKnockout Quote No 480, Madison, But Paul does his best to keep the wrathful god alive and hovering over hapless humansKnockout Quote No 473, Madison, That once-upon-a-time ‘inspired’ Bible is gone.Knockout Quote No 472, Madison, God’s job performance was well below par on his inspire-the-Bible daysKnockout Quote No 377, Madison, Most Christians have ditched Adam and EveKnockout Quote No 373, Madison, The apostle Paul was pretty far down the rabbit hole of delusional theologyKnockout Quote No 370,Madison, The marching orders to apologists from all ecclesiastical authoritiesKnockout Quote No 357, Madison, The Virgin Mary Appears on Toast Seriously?Knockout Quote No 471, Madison, If Christians actually buy it, our suspicion is confirmed that they aren’t all that curiousKnockout Quote No 469, Madison, Why should anyone outside the faith in-groups trust their claims?Knockout Quote No 467, Madison,You know who should write a Bible commentary? How about God himself?Knockout Quote No 348, Madison, Even on Facebook, devout folks muster prayer marathonsKnockout Quote No 332, Madison, One of Richard Carrier’s more acerbic descriptions of JesusKnockout Quote No 319, Madison, A creator god—perhaps as in, May the Force Be with You—leaves you with an undefinedKnockout Quote No 317, Madison, Whatever you believe about your god—well, it took thousands of years of theological squabblingKnockout Quote No 464, Madison, Religious quacks, shrewd theologians of all persuasions, have been selling a product they don’t haveKnockout Quote No 295, Madison, But Paul had no clue that this drags theology down with magical thinkingKnockout Quote No 294, Madison, Eventually a great kaleidoscope of pagan beliefs invaded Jewish thoughtKnockout Quote No 258, Madison,The Bible misses the mark as reliable history, and isn’t all that great morally or spirituallyKnockout Quote No 252, Madison, There is no such thing as a holy man This is part of the bamboozleKnockout Quote No 238, Madison, Those who want to adore Mary will not find an ally in PaulKnockout Quote No 237, Madison, Paul was an obsessive-compulsive mediocre thinker and bad theologianKnockout Quote No 457, Madison, Yes, it was cool that a disabled man was lowered through the roof to meet JesusKnockout Quote No 236, Madison, Matthew insults our intelligence in the first chapter of his gospelKnockout Quote No 233, Madison, The apostle Paul was a crank, the most fitting label is Delusional Cult FanaticKnockout Quote No 229, Madison, Once upon a time, Christianity was inventing by cobbling together spare partsKnockout Quote No 450, Madison, Christian theologians know full well that the Bible is more of a curseKnockout Quote No 446, Madison, The eternal life gimmick fueled Christianity from the very beginningKnockout Quote No 442, Madison, How foolish, how gullible, to grant Word-of-God status to stuff that tumbled out of somebody’s imaginationKnockout Quote No 440, Madison, Jesus takes his place alongside Harry, Hermione and Ron as alumni of HogwartsKnockout Quote No 439, Madison, Please go through the Bible, line by line, and mark the verses that can be ruled out as Word of GodKnockout Quote No 437, Madison, I have zero awe and wonder for the absurd deityKnockout Quote No 436, Madison, It’s too bad that all the awe and wonder aimed at God degrade into sillinessKnockout Quote No 435, Madison, If you accept the Jesus of Mark’s gospel, you are well on the way to full-throttle crazy religionKnockout Quote No 433, Madison, Cosmologists know that “God did it” is a non-answerKnockout Quote No 432, Madison, One of the utterly useless statements in the Sermon of the MountKnockout Quote No 431, Madison, God must have wanted more angelsKnockout Quote No 429, Madison, If only the apostle Paul’s zeal had been directed toward something more beneficial to humankindKnockout Quote No 423, Madison, I Belong to JesusKnockout Quote No 418, Madison, So what is the life expectancy of ole Yahweh’s vast data dumpKnockout Quote No 416, Madison, Children ascribe personalities to their teddy bears and talk to themKnockout Quote No 229, Madison, Once upon a time, Christianity was inventing by cobbling together spare partsKnockout Quote No 400, Madison, “It’s all part of God’s plan” wears thin
Knockout Quote No 386, Zingrone, The delusion of “revealed scripture” has created a lot of hatred, misery and death all over the worldZingrone, Pope Francis, Time Magazine 2013 Man of the YearKnockout Quote No 382, Zingrone, I refuse to call that son-of-a-bitch a saintKnocckout Quote No 380, Zingrone, So, go bowling next Sunday instead of attending church and have a good timeZingrone, All the old virgin men in the Catholic Church have been telling us differently for millenniaKnockout Quote No 536, Zingrone, Religious thought, with no basis in reality, and precious little tolerance, is the most destructiveKnockout Quote No 538, Zingrone, When pastors and ministers, popes, priests make up shit, we call it theology
Roberts, The magical thinking of any culture often produces ways of giving one living creature dominanceRoberts, Humans choose to create gods and then give them this incredible power to make our lives even harderRoberts, The magical thinking of any culture often produces ways of giving one living creature dominanceKnockout Quote No 490, Roberts, I was never able to get a satisfying explanation for why the Bible is full of such hateful ideasKnockout Quote No 484, Roberts, Because the masses want to attend their churches, pray to their statues, dip their fingers in tap waterKnockout Quote No 425, Roberts, Roughly 84% of the world has faithKnockout Quote No 415, Roberts, Why can’t liberal Christians retire the Bible?Knockout Quote No 406, Roberts, Or all of the gods formed a kind of cosmic god swat teamKnockout Quote No 404, Roberts, As long as humans give a rat’s ass about superstition and religionKnockout Quote No 403, Roberts, Someone always wants to control us Mythologies are dangerous
Knockout Quote No 62, Loftus, I’ve kicked this dead rodent into lifeless blobKnockout Quote No 24, Loftus, Which evangelist will objectively tell the ugly side of the Bible and of the churchKnockout Quote No 524, Loftus, That makes an omniscient Christian God look stupid as well as uncaringKnockout Quote No 43, Loftus, There really are no sacred scripturesKnockout Quote No 506, Loftus, It’s time to give religion in all of its forms a swift kick in the buttKnockout Quote No 46, Loftus, Obfuscationist theology doesn’t change a thingKnockout Quote No 522, Loftus, What we find exclusively in the Bible is human testimony aloneKnockout Quote No 49, Loftus, If God had done a better job communicatingKnockout Quote No 520, Loftus, There is no divine forgiveness because there is no divine forgiverKnockout Quote No 515, Loftus, All that religious faith produces is more and more diverse and even mutually exclusive religionsKnockout Quote No 514, Loftus, What’s left is the demise of religion and Christianity as a wholeKnockout Quote No 512, Loftus, Yet Christians believe anyway that God is perfectly good and omnipotentKnockout Quote No 510, Loftus, Let’s say there is a human person behind the myths about the Jesus in the GospelsKnockout Quote No 509, Loftus, No, God did not die We just came to the realization he never existed in the first placeKnockout Quote No 508, Loftus, On the heels of the most horrific example of moral evil comes the most horrific example of natural evilKnockout Quote no 448, Loftus, Defending the Christian Faith requires special pleadingKnockout Quote No 396, Loftus, They obfuscate to make what they believe more palatableKnockout Quote No 381, Loftus, If some of us would not have sinned in the Garden of Eden under the same “ideal” conditionsKnockout Quote No 376, Loftus, Christian theism has no more credibility than ScientologyKnockout Quote No 356, Loftus, I laugh almost daily when reading something written by one of the top Christian apologistsKnockout Quote No 353, Loftus, Someday in the future people will treat Christianity just like all of the other dead gods and religionsKnockout Quote No 352, Loftus, Believers do not reason well because they are blinded by faith in their culturally inherited fantasiesKnockout Quote No 351, Loftus, As more people think Yahweh is no longer a credible god then more of us should ridiculeKnockout Quote No 346, Loftus, According to Christian theology Jesus is one with YahwehKnockout Quote No 343, Loftus, We’ve been above the moon and sent satellites through the solar systemKnockout Quote No 339, Loftus, Christians demand that I prove their faith is impossibleKnockout Quote No 337, Loftus, It would have never entered the mind of a Catholic ChristianKnockout Quote No 336, Loftus, If Allah is the same deity as the one worshipped by ChristiansKnockout Quote No 333, Loftus, I have come to the conclusion that Christianity is no more to be respected than ScientologyKnockout Quote No 329, Loftus, Religious philosophy is to philosophy what “creation science” is to scienceKnockout Quote No 328, Loftus, It takes sophistication to make Christian faith palatableKnockout Quote No 327, Loftus, Now is the time to ridicule Christian faith and other faiths in our worldKnockout Quote No 326, Loftus, I mean, come on, the facts are in- there is no positive empirical evidence for the existence of GodKnockout Quote No 325, Loftus, They are simply making shit up to believe and to justify why they believeKnockout Quote No 323, Loftus, Fairies don’t exist Neither does Yahweh, the supposed Father-god of JesusKnockout Quote No 320, Loftus, Christian pseudo-philosophers simply take for granted a set of inconsistent beliefsKnockout Quote No 315, Loftus, When it comes to Christianity, two thousand years are enough
Knockout Quote No 307, Loftus, That’s because it’s the evidence that convinces, not the personalities behind itKnockout Quote No 299, Loftus, With the rise of science, the method of science, the progress of scienceKnockout Quote No 292, Loftus, Faith has no method, solves no problems, and is an utterly unreliable guideKnockout Quote No 291, Loftus, Biblical studies must end because the evidence is decisiveKnockout Quote No 289, Loftus, Christians are responding to their critics by reinventing their faith every decadeKnockout Quote No 272, Loftus, Faith should be rejected by all reasonable, thinking, emotionally healthy adultsKnockout Quote No 262, Loftus, Believers in the three Abrahamic religious have been killing each other for nothingKnockout Quote No 261, Loftus, All that believers must do is test their religious faith from the perspective of an outsiderKnockout Quote No 243, Loftus, Believer, you must bring your brain to heel by demanding objective evidenceKnockout Quote No 242, Luftus, Faith is the mother of all cognitive biasesKnockout Quote No 517, Loftus, according to objective evidence evaluated dispassionately without any double standards, as an outsiderKnockout Quote No 208, Loftus, they were wrong to believe in the BiblKnockout Quote No 163, Loftus, How might gospel writers objectively know Jesus was born of a virgin?Knockout Quote No 68, Loftus, It’s as if God shot himself in the footKnockout Quote No 66, Loftus, subjective experience provide no evidence at allKnockout Quote No 181, Loftus, Evil speaks like a megaphone against the existence of this GodKnockout Quote No 109, Loftus, This is the problem of divine hiddennessKnockout Quote No 379, Loftus,Christianity is just way too improbable to be believed or defended
Knockout Quote No 503, Conner, Christianity is ultimately folklore, loosely based on Hebrew folkloreCCKQ No 537, Conner, Despite predictions that Jesus will rise from the dead, not a single one of his apostles shows up
Knockout Quote No 535, Conner, If Jesus is the answer, the question must be stupider than fuckKnockout Quote No 501, Conner, Religion is a mental illness that directly threatens planetary lifeKnockout Quote No 493, Conner, Christians just live in a different time zone than the rest of usKnockout Quote No 468, Conner, It is the Holy Spirit that convinces someone of the truthKnockout Quote No 444, Conner, The Holy Spirit is flitting around the world whispering into the temporal lobes of billions of peopleKnockout Quote No 443, Conner, If you thought the Armageddonists were literally barking insane, psychology increasingly has your backKnockout Quote No 421, Conner, The British suffered over 57,000 casualties during the first day of the Battle of the SommeKnockout Quote No 419, Connor, The rantings of a self-deluded man who is pretty clearly off his rockerKnockout Quote No 417, Conner, Theoretically we have separation of church and state, Separation of church and crazy, not so muchKnockout Quote No 391, Conner, True believers come across to secular moderns as simultaneously condescending and ridiculousKnockout Quote No 389, Conner, (ERIC) The tsunami of dishonest verbiage shows no sign of recedingKnockout Quote No 388, Conner, That the whisperings of a “Holy Spirit” would take precedence over evidence and its coherent analysisKnockout Quote No 477, Conner,The apostle Paul was basically rummaging around in the Old TestamentKnockout Quote No 475, Conner, We have no problem suspecting new religious movements of being examples of folie à plusieursKnockout Quote No 474, Conner, The line between magic and religion is imperceptibleKnockout Quote No 390, Conner, The Holy Spirit made a right shit job of itKnockout Quote No 366, Conner,The overwhelming majority of Christians know bupkis
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Essential Title, Fitzgerald, Jesus Mything in Action, Vol 1Essential title, Fitzgerald, Jesus Mything in Action, Volume 2Essential Title, Fitzgerald, Jesus Mything in Action,Vol 3Carrier, On the Historicity of JesusEssential title, Loftus, The Christian Delusion
Essential title, Loftus, The End of Christianity
Essential title, Loftus, Christianity is not greatEssential title, Loftus, Christianity in the Light of Science
Essential Title, Loftus, Why I Became an Atheist
Essential title, Loftus, The Outsider Test of Faith
Knockout Quote No 48, Wathey, Religious belief is a phenomenon of the human brainKnockout Quote No 385, Wathey, Surely Almighty God can take care of himselfKnockout Quote No 384, Wathey, The god of the Old Testament was likely modeled after human leaders of the Bronze AgeKnockout Quote No 375, Wathey, We have no way to know whether God is good, evil, or indifferentKnockout Quote No 374, Wathey, Prayer is the adult manifestation of infantile cryingKnockout Quote No 132, Wathey, Humans have invented thousands of religions