Celebrate Atheists' Day - April 1

The whole Universe is a large joke.
Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke.
So why take anything too serious.
-- Frank Zappa

there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.
-- Sam Harris, 

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord and Queen of Heaven may disagree.

The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
-- Karl Marx

Man revolving around himself is a good thing? Like a Whirling Dervish or a brachiating ape.

Dear god if you were alive
you know we'd kill you
-- Marilyn Manson

Yeah. He knows

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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch

 Larry Flynt 

As opposed to, oh, pornography?

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
-- Bertrand Russell,

Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and others might take heed...

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion.... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our “godly gift” of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?

Tell it to St. John Paul II, Chris
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The evidence indicates otherwise

• "Do you ask if it's ever proper to help another man? ... Yes — if such is your own desire based on your own selfish pleasure." - Ayn Rand

One more Msgr. Pope

Order! Order in the Universe! – A Meditation on the Wisdom That Creation Reflects

By: Msgr. Charles Pope

The whole universe shouts, “Order! Consistency! Intelligibility!” 

You Should Follow Msgr. Pope, of the Diocese of Washington DC

Msgr. Pope, of the Diocese of Washington DC has an outstanding blog. I read the article he discusses before I read his observations about it.

I came as no surprise to me that his thoughts are far better than mine.

Designer Religion: A Critique of a Recent Description of Faith in a National Publication

By: Msgr. Charles Pope

"We live in times of what I would call “designer religion.” Many people seem to think they have a right to assemble religious teachings they like and discard what they do not. The idea that faith is revealed by God and that we are to discover what He has revealed (in both creation and Scripture) and conform ourselves to it is at odds with our consumer culture. But faith is not a consumer product. We can’t just select the commandments we like or the doctrines we prefer, and still remain faithful to God, who reveals on His terms, not ours."