Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
English-American, Literary Critic, Journalist, Author,
Essayist, Polemicist, and Outspoken Anti-theist
The gods we have made are exactly the gods you would expect to be made from a species about a half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
American Author, Journalist, 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
A politician is defined as a person who receives votes from the poor and money from the rich on the promise of protecting each from the other.
Peter Alexander Ustinov (16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004)
English Actor, Writer, Dramatist, Intellectual, Diplomat. Served as a Goodwill
Ambassador for UNICEF, and President of the World Federalist Movement
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
. . . [H]ow ridiculous it is to assume that god must be the default answer for every unknown. I used to wonder why so many Christians seemed unable to understand this. I suspect now that these Christians did not want to think because doing so might jeopardize their faith.
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Norman Gary Finkelstein, Ph.D (born December 8, 1953)
American Political Scientist, Intellectual, Author, and
Activist (Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Politics of the Holocaust)
I would like to say, speaking as a devout atheist, thank god in His mighty wisdom that He made us mortal we don’t have to endure it through eternity.
Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D., (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996)
American Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Cosmologist, Author, Science
Popularizer, and Science Communicator in Space and Natural Sciences
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep-seated need to believe.
Always Question Authority 