“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” MenGivingReasonSuccessReligionLostAtheismWasteArgumentReasonableTyrantsQuartersHumaneReasonable Man Book:The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835 Source: The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835
“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.” PeopleWorldYearsStillsUseChristianReligionDiesJesusMillionsFourRiskIgnoranceBirthWasteOrganizationSpreadNobleAidsDevelopingWasting TimeContrastSecularVolunteerVirginsGoodwillNeedyCondomDogmatismTime And MoneyGreat RiskProselytizingVirgin BirthSub Saharan AfricaJesus BirthCondom Use Author:Sam Harris
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” IfsLoveReligionReligiousSecretWasteMereNeighborBotherWasting TimeLove Your Neighbor Book:Joyful Christian Source: Joyful Christian
“Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.” WantScienceReligionAtheismProveWasteEvidenceAtheistMy TimeSuspectsAgnosticAgnosticismScience ReligionWasting My Time Author:Isaac Asimov
“Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.” MenBelieveMadeWholeReligionUniverseSunSkyMinutesPlanetsRevolutionWasteImmenseGlobesOrbit Author:Baron d'Holbach
“There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.” IfsBelieveReasonWould BeReligionAtheismWasteJokesProportionTragicNo ReasonWasting TimeCosmicGod ExistsWaste Of Life Author:Richard Dawkins