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IvanK · 04-29-2002, 06:32 AM

``Hands that help are better than lips that pray.'' -- Ingersoll

``Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work, nor thought, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you are going.'' -- Ecclesiastes 9:10 (New KJV)

Captain Pedantic · 04-29-2002, 08:54 AM

I've got none of my own, but I have found these links.

<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/tx/greendyfan/topten12.html" target="_blank">Here</a>, <a href="http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/bumpers.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.instantattitudes.com/complete.html" target="_blank">here.</a>

NB: not all of those on the last one are atheistic, although a lot of them are.

idoubt2 · 04-29-2002, 02:55 PM

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Mark Twain

Egoinos · 04-29-2002, 02:58 PM

Hummm...I've seen all the ones Rational Ag posted before...

Did you get them off <a href="http://www.coolsig.com" target="_blank">www.coolsig.com</a> ? They have quite a big selection under "religion".

I've been trying to collect a list of nontheistic signature files myself - for my website - so here are my latest, anyway. Not all of these are funny:

"The gods help those who help themselves" Aesop

"If God is man, then man is God" Mary Daly

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." Aneurin Bevan (so, he was talking about politics, It could do just as well for religion!)

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support" John Buchan

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" Denis Diderot

[Remark at Pearl Harbour, 1941]
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" Howell Forgy (attributed)

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires" Sigmund Freud

"It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people too" Heinrich Heine

"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators" Thomas Macaulay

"I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance." Christopher Marlowe

"Religion...is the opium of the people" Karl Marx

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable" H L Mencken

"Man is quite insane. He would not know how to create a maggot , and he makes Gods by the dozen" Michel de Montaigne

"God is dead: but men's natures are such that for thousands of years yet there will perhaps be caves in which his shadow is seen" Friedrich Nietzsche

--Egoinos--

Ragnarok · 04-29-2002, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hugh Jass:
<strong>To go along with the 'Annoying Religious Platitudes' thread it would be nice to have a collection of Secular Sayings.

Behind my desk I have, 'I am an Atheist.
Thank God!'

which took a whole weekend to carve in oak.

How about some more?</strong>

I have always liked that spot in the Simpsons where Ned Flanders is praying and says something like "Dear lord, you know I've always been your faithful servant and believed everything in the Bible - even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff."

Jane Bovary · 04-29-2002, 10:10 PM

"Not only is there no God...but try getting a plumber on the weekend."

Woody Allen

BibleBelted · 04-30-2002, 01:23 PM

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Heinrich Heine

"Life is too short to spend with assholes."

Backwoods carpenter I used to work with.

Rational Ag · 04-30-2002, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Did you get them off <a href="http://www.coolsig.com" target="_blank">www.coolsig.com</a> ?

As a matter of fact, I do think that's where I got them. I collected a bunch of sayings a while back, and I know I've been to that website.

I tend to gather that kind of stuff, I just copied and pasted a few of the ones I have.

-Rational Ag

invictus58 · 04-30-2002, 01:55 PM

"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

"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth." --Desiderius Erasmus

Ender · 04-30-2002, 01:59 PM

Master Eckhardt: "I ask God to rid me of God."

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04-29-2002, 06:32 AM	#21
IvanK Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,016	``Hands that help are better than lips that pray.'' -- Ingersoll ``Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work, nor thought, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you are going.'' -- Ecclesiastes 9:10 (New KJV)

04-29-2002, 08:54 AM	#22
Captain Pedantic Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: UK. Posts: 588	I've got none of my own, but I have found these links. <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/tx/greendyfan/topten12.html" target="_blank">Here</a>, <a href="http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/bumpers.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.instantattitudes.com/complete.html" target="_blank">here.</a> NB: not all of those on the last one are atheistic, although a lot of them are.

04-29-2002, 02:55 PM	#23
idoubt2 New Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: charleston, sc Posts: 4	Faith is believing what you know ain't so. Mark Twain

04-29-2002, 02:58 PM	#24
Egoinos Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 423	Hummm...I've seen all the ones Rational Ag posted before... Did you get them off <a href="http://www.coolsig.com" target="_blank">www.coolsig.com</a> ? They have quite a big selection under "religion". I've been trying to collect a list of nontheistic signature files myself - for my website - so here are my latest, anyway. Not all of these are funny: "The gods help those who help themselves" Aesop "If God is man, then man is God" Mary Daly "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." Aneurin Bevan (so, he was talking about politics, It could do just as well for religion!) "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support" John Buchan "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" Denis Diderot [Remark at Pearl Harbour, 1941] "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" Howell Forgy (attributed) "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires" Sigmund Freud "It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people too" Heinrich Heine "The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators" Thomas Macaulay "I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance." Christopher Marlowe "Religion...is the opium of the people" Karl Marx "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable" H L Mencken "Man is quite insane. He would not know how to create a maggot , and he makes Gods by the dozen" Michel de Montaigne "God is dead: but men's natures are such that for thousands of years yet there will perhaps be caves in which his shadow is seen" Friedrich Nietzsche --Egoinos--

04-29-2002, 10:10 PM	#26
Jane Bovary Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: The Fatal Shore Posts: 900	"Not only is there no God...but try getting a plumber on the weekend." Woody Allen

04-30-2002, 01:23 PM	#27
BibleBelted Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 891	In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides. Heinrich Heine "Life is too short to spend with assholes." Backwoods carpenter I used to work with.

04-30-2002, 01:55 PM	#29
invictus58 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: MA Posts: 25	"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 "Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth." --Desiderius Erasmus

04-30-2002, 01:59 PM	#30
Ender Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Lusitania Colony Posts: 658	Master Eckhardt: "I ask God to rid me of God."

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