Saturday, January 11, 2014

Wonderful treatise on a belief in God

"Atheism is the arrogant belief that the entire universe was not created for our benefit.
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...and that contrasts with the humble religious belief that the most power[ful] creature ever created the entire universe of over one hundred billion galaxies, each of which contains over a hundred billion stars like our sun, and then waited for about fourteen billion years, and then picked one of the one hundred billion galaxies, and then picked one of the hundred billion stars within that galaxy, and then picked one of the planets circling that star, and then picked one of the millions of species that existed on that planet, and then picked one individual of that species and said ‘I really think I’ve got to tell that guy to stop gathering sticks on the sabbath.’"

- from Atheist Ireland chairperson Michael Nugent's opening comments to the World Atheist Convention in Dublin on 3 June 2011

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