Knockout Quote No 460, Compere, The myth of Paul Bunyan makes a good story, as does the story of JesusKnockout Quote No 447, Compere ,Why this all-powerful God decided to make up the rule that some living creature had to be killedKnockout Quote No 500, Compere, And that an eternal torment awaits those who can’t buy this dangerous human delusionKnockout Quote No 459, Compere, Enshrining a book as “holy” is simply a ridiculous thing to do
Knockout Quote No 51, Eller, Human morality would be better off without the religion additionsKnockout Quote No 491, Eller, Christian love has explained and supported often white-hot hatredKnockout Quote No 304, Eller, Even more inclined to show his face is Jesus, whose likeness is as likely to appear on a wallKnockout Quote No 298, Eller, Religions can be as divisive as integrative, can get entire groups killed offKnockout Quote No 293, Eller, Christian often reinterpret threatening facts as tests of faith by their godKnockout Quote No 280, Eller, Whether or not any god is omnipresent, religion is, or strives to beKnockout Quote No 270, Eller, All evidence powerfully suggests that the human brain and mind is a highly imperfect deviceKnockout Quote No 247, Eller, Now Christianity is truly a world religion—or a loose association of religious speciesKnockout Quote No 245, Eller, The Christian embrace of war would reach its climax in the CrusadesKnockout Quote No 244, Eller, An end-of-the-world movement gathered around William Miller in the 1830sKnockout Quote No 221, Eller, That which is no longer taken for granted is often not taken at allKnockout Quote No 212, Eller, There is no such thing as a single, unified, global Christianity
Knockout Quote No 206, Eller, The first Christians to be executed over theology
Knockout Quote No 98, Tarico, The Jesus story follows a sacred templateKnockout Quote No 488, Tarico, So few humans are embarrassed to assign to divinity the attributes of a male alpha primateKnockout Quote No 322, Tarico, Forms of Christianity the emphasize right belief have built-in safeguardsKnockout Quote No 313, Tarico, Abstract theologies are a fairly recent invention in the history of human religionKnockout Quote No 310, Tarico, Certainty is a confession of ignorance about our ability to be profoundly mistakenKnockout Quote No 309, Tarico, We are capable of feeling so certain about our false beliefs that we are willing to kill for themKnockout Quote No 308, Tarico, Athletes huddle in prayer before a game, just in case those random bounces aren’t randomKnockout Quote No 305, Tarico, Worship practices, music and religious architecture have been optimized over timeKnockout Quote No 288, Tarico, Why has the main current of Christianity produced a steady diet of misogyny for 2000 years?Knockout Quote No 222, Tarico, Righteous confidence, unchecked by humble self-examination, is dangerousKnockout Quote No 196, Tarico, Modern Christian soldiers react to perceived threats against their faithKnockout Quote No 186, Tarico, When praying, most believers don’t look puffed upKnockout Quote No 185, Tarico, If that’s not a bit presumptuous—arrogant even—I don’t know what isKnockout Quote No 105, Tarico, not a very impressive claim for an omnipotent deity
Knockout Quotes No 22, Avalos, I suspect that 99 percent of the Bible would not be missedKnockout Quote No 476, Avalos, Jesus himself says that the Jews are liars fathered by the devilKnockout Quote No 160, Avalos, the eternal duration of the violence are infinitely greaterKnockout Quote No 159, Avalos, A man who was egotistical, delusional or economically ineptKnockout Quote No 157, Avalos, Jesus demands that followers transfer allegiance from their familiesKnockout Quote No 156, Avalos, If Jesus was a human being, he must have had flawsKnockout Quote No 155, Avalos, All faith claims are equal in their unverifiability
Knockout Quote No 363, Chumney, The Gospels as a whole comprise not memoriesKnockout Quote No 441, Chumney, Many of Mark’s stories about Jesus likely owe their existence not to genuine recollectionsKnockout Quote No 365, Chumney,the mythical character encountered in the gospelsKnockout Quote No 364, Chumney,It is very likely a product of the church’s imagination
Knockout Quote No 372, Fitzgerald, Christ is not the solid rock, but shifting sandKnockout Quote No 362, Fitzgerald, If you ever get hit by this particular cloud of apologetic squid inkKnockout Quote No 360, Fitzgerald, It seems the real sin of Judas is not treachery, petty theft or demon possessionKnockout Quote No 359, Fitzgerald, The New Testament sags under the weight of forgeriesKnockout Quote No 358, Fitzgerald, Nowhere do the four gospels ever claim to be the work of eyewitnessesKnockout Quote No 354, Fitzgerald, The field of Jesus Studies has failed to verify any single fact of Jesus’ lifeKnockout Quote No 350, Fitzgerald, Like the pagan miracle workers, Jesus cast out demons and healed the blind, deaf, and muteKnockout Quote No 349, Fitzgerald, The profile of Jesus in the New Testament is composed of stock motifsKnockout Quote No 347, Fitzgerald, Jesus Studies is in crisis—because Christianity is in crisisKnockout Quote No 338, Fitzgerald, The methods that have been devised and employed to tease out hints of the “Real Jesus”Knockout Quote No 335, Fitzgerald, It’s no skin off my atheist nose if it turns out there WAS a Jesus after allKnockout Quote No 334, Fitzgerald, How is anyone supposed to take the Gospels at face value?Knockout Quote No 331, Fitzgerald, It’s no coincidence that the Christians who study the Bible the hardestKnockout Quote No 330, Fitzgerald, Christianity had a good, long run But it is not too big to failKnockout Quote No 273, Fitzgerald,The fool has said in his heart, there is no god “Exactly! The wise man says it out loudKnockout Quote No 345, Fitzgerald, Like a sweatshop of Rumplestiltskins desperate to spin insistence into ironclad certitudeCCKQ No 371, David Fitzgerald, Saying Jesus invented Christianity is like saying Mickey Mouse invented Disneyland
Knockout Quote No 150, Ray, The god isn’t working too well when 92 million people diedKnockout Quote No 355, Ray, The progress of science is demonstrable The progress of religion is non-existentKnockout Quote No. 151, Ray, Getting the smoke and mirrors of religion out of the way
Knockout Quote No 2, Harrison, the god who makes all the rulesKnockout Quote No 340, Harrison, Then there is popular belief among Christians that God sends billions of people to hellKnockout Quote No 287, Harrison, Religions make the biggest claims with the least evidenceKnockout Quote No 286, Harrison, Humans have never been united in belief at any time in history NeverKnockout Quote No 282, Harrison, Good Thinking is not a stance or set of skills that come naturally to usKnockout Quote No 281, Harrison, Religions constantly clash with science, Reality and truth are the goals of scienceKnockout Quote No 279, Harrison, Science shows, while religions simply make claims and leave it at thatKnockout Quote No 278, Harrison, The belief system endures despite a profoundly strange and wholly unproven premiseKnockout Quote No 253, Harrison, This religion stands in direct opposition to the full blossoming of a human mindKnockout Quote No 216, Christianity would have us not only stagnate but move backwardKnockout Quote No 180, Harrison, The war in China, fought for Jesus, claimed an estimated 20 million livesKnockout Quote No 172, Harrison, Faith is like Kryptonite to the scientific mindKnockout Quote No 141, Harrison, Why would god go forward with an obviously bad design?Knockout Quote No 135, Harrison, Those same whispers from many gods for many centuriesKnockout Quote No 137, Harrison, Look around; life is not fair. What could be more obvious?
Knockout Quote No 131, Harrison, We don’t need gods to connect with something spectacularKnockout Quote No 100, Harrison, Many thousands of excavations have been conductedKnockout Quote No 99, Harrison, All the monumental religious controversiesKnockout Quote No 94, Harrison, if the gods really do need moneyKnockout Quote No 91, Harrison, instruction manuals for achieving a divided, angry, and violent worldKnockout Quote No 88, Harrison, Atheists have found only empty airKnockout Quote No 65, Harrison, millions of creatures are being eaten aliveKnockout Quote No 63, Harrison, We are a god-inventing species
Knockout Quote No 142, Daleiden, Those who drive into the future looking in a rearview mirrorKnockout Quote No 275, Daleiden, The gospels tell of Jesus driving devils out of sick people into pigsKnockout Quote No 267, Daleiden,The reasoning which proposes that the death of Jesus was an act of reparationKnockout Quote No 259, Daleiden, There has been no shortage of people who declared that they spoke for the godsKnockout Quote No 219, Daleiden, Christianity has demonstrated its destructive antihuman valuesKnockout Quote No 218, Daleiden, Looking at the mess the world is in, it might seem easier to prove a Devil than a GodKnockout Quote No 166, Daleiden, Christianity had a great product, immortality. And did it sell!Knockout Quote No 165, Daleiden, Yet another little horror story, Ananias and SapphiraKnockout Quote No 153, Daleiden, Little that is original in the teachings attributed to JesusKnockout Quote No 152, Daleiden, Most people superimpose their own value systems on a religionKnockout Quote No 143, Daleiden, I that all 2000 years of theology could come up with?
Knockout Quote No 7, Helms,Inattentive readers will be even more surprised to learn that the Bible is a self-destructing artifactKnockout Quote No 301, Helms, Each of the canonical Gospels is religious proclamation, the form of largely fictional narrativeKnockout Quote No 297, Helms, The gospels are indeed imaginative literature, fiction
