Let Us Start With God

மதங்களின் கடந்த 2000 வருட சரித்திரத்தைப் பார்த்தால் அது நாகரிகம், கலை, கல்வி, எண்ண சுதந்திரம் இவற்றோடு மனிதனின் உயிருக்கும் கூடப் பெரிய விரோதியாக இருந்திருக்கிறது என்பது தெரிய வரும். அவர்கள் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான புத்தகங்களையும் நெருப்பிலிட்டு விட்டார்கள். உருவம் பெற்ற அழகையும் - கோமள உணர்ச்சியையும் எத்தனையோ கலை நிபுணர்களின் அழகிய சிற்பங்களையும் ஓவியம் நிறைந்த மாளிகைகளையும் நாசமாக்கி விட்டார்கள். ஆயிரக்கணக்கான கல்வி ஆசை உடையவர்களையும், அறிஞர்களையும் கொன்று எண்ண சுதந்திரத்தின் கழுத்தை முறித்து விட்டார்கள். மனிதனின் மன வளர்ச்சியை குறைந்த பட்சம் ஒராயிரம் வருடத்திற்கு தடுத்ததோடல்லாமல், முன்னால் பெற்றிருந்த வெற்றிகளையும் பெரும்பாகம் அழித்து விட்டார்கள். குற்றமற்ற பலரை கொன்று குவித்து விட்டார்கள்.
நூல் : பொதுவுடமைதான் என்ன?
ஆசிரியர்: ராகுல சாங்கிருத்தியாயன்(1935)
தமிழில் : கண.முத்தையா.

History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god.  --Giulian Buzila 

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.  --Emo Philips 

Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, and Deludes people.  --Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

There is no god
There is no god at all
He who invented god is a fool
He who propagates god is a knave
He who worships god is a primitive  --Periyar

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence  --Doug McLeod 

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend  --Richard Jeni 

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.  --Marie 

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.  --Unknown 

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?  --Epicurus 

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. --Carl Sagan 

Asked soon after Carl's death:"Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?"
She responded, "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know."  --Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan's wife) 

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.  --Voltaire 

"A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle."  --Adapted from a quotation of feminist Gloria Steinem 

Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successively. The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to this complex and technical subject. 

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until the end of time...but he loves you."  --George Carlin 

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."  --Chapman Cohen 

"Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing."  --John Dewey 

"If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"  --Anatole France

The image of God in such places as Banares, Puri and Pandaripuram do not 'die' when touched by anyone. Those who go to these temples offer worship by doing all the ceremonies themselves. But why do the same-Gods 'die' only in Tamilnadu, if they are touched? Thus, why do the powers of Gods and their lives, and the reputation of temples vary from place to place?   -- Periyar:

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."  --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.  --Edith Sitwell

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.  --Lenny Bruce 

"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."  --Sigmund Freud, "Future of an Illusion". 1927

"It never ceases to amaze me at how many religions depend upon circumcised penises.  --Dawn Henderson

"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced."  --Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792-1822)

"A believer is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer."  --Marian Noel Sherman, M.D. Interview, Daily Colonist, c. 1969 

Why should the divine power of God disappear if the image of God is seen by some? Why should God and temple be defiled if some go there? Why should God die if some touch His image? Why should God, with the same name and image, have different powers, according to the places where He is?  --Periyar

Man is considered superior to other beings in this world, because he has limitless capacity for knowledge, People in other lands have advanced greatly, utilizing this knowledge. But our countrymen owing to lack of use of this knowledge are abjectly deteriorating. Stating that ours is a land of enlightenment, we build tanks and temples; in other lands, men fly in space and amaze the whole world.   --Periyar

Anything that is not in tune with reason and self - respect must be eschewd. If superstition is removed and religion is viewed in the light of reason, no religion will survive.    --Periyar 

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