Religion
A mandate to love one’s neighbour
You simply cannot reconcile a mandate to love one’s neighbour, whilst then adding a list of openly bigoted exceptions. Matt Gemmell, on the Pope, Morality and Persecution (Wayback Machine)
Religion
Religion
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bullshit. Richard Prior, 1972, quoted on LOL god
Cognition
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. Stephen Hawking, interviewed in The Guardian, There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story
Life
The human could be translated out of its body
The human could be translated out of its body and into machines, free of the meat, of the flesh. We would hang there, wired into a reticulation of phosphorescent splines. Paul Ford, Just Like Heaven, in his elaborate answer to the question Is there an afterlife?
Religion
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people
Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be religious people. Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007