Knockout Quote No 263, Stenger, If the conflict between science and religion were just a matter of intellectual debateKnockout Quote No 230, Stenger, An authoritarian society that brutally suppressed the slightest traces of freethinkingKnockout Quote No 481, Stenger, Jesus must be continually dying on the cross, every nanosecond or soKnockout Quote No 392, Stenger, So far we see no proof that the feelings correspond to anything outside their heads
Knockout Quote No 316, Carrier, If Jesus was a god and really wanted to save the worldKnockout Quote No 513, Carrier, The Archimedes codexKnockout Quote No 494, Carrier, No, the character of Jesus in the Gospels was not the wisest and kindest of beingsKnockout Quote No 492, Carrier, The Catholic Church Is an International Rape FactoryKnockout Quote No 344, Carrier, It was the heavenly Jesus that was sold to the masses, not some dead carpenter from GalileeKnockout Quote No 342, Carrier, There is no evidence that a crucified god was an obstacle to convertingKnockout Quote No 341, Carrier, Among pagans, murdered gods who came back from the dead were wildly popularKnockout Quote No 324, Carrier, There just wasn’t any evidence Jesus really rose from the deadKnockout Quote No 321, Carrier, The actual evidence that Jesus rose from the dead consisted of unconfirmable hearsayKnockout Quote No 314, Carrier, All attempts to argue that Christianity’s origins and success were supernaturally special onlyKnockout Quote No 312, Carrier, Right from the start Jesus simply looks a lot more like a mythical man than a historical oneKnockout Quote No 302, Carrier, Attempts to distinguish ‘magic’ from ‘religion’ are apologetic anachronismsKnockout Quote No 300, Carrier, New Testament Embarrassments, The Parables of Jesus, Not invented yetKnockout Quote No 290, Carrier, Luke’s methods are demonstrably non historicalKnockout Quote No 277, Carrier, Matthew then added a ridiculous Nativity NarrativeKnockout Quote No 274, Carrier, The ceaseless incomprehension of the disciples is wholly unrealisticKnockout Quote No 276, Carrier, They would have killed Jesus on the spotKnockout Quote No 254, Carrier, The evidence for Jesus is among the most compromised bodies of evidenceKnockout Quote No 215, Carrier, The dying-and-rising son of god originated over a 1000 years before ChristianityKnockout Quote No 205, Carrier, And anyone willing to tell the one lie will be just as willing to tell the otherKnockout Quote No 189, Carrier, Thracian deity Zalmoxis was believed to have died and risen from the deadKnockout Quote No 184, Carrier, The apostle Paul includes hallucinated trips to heavenKnockout Quote No 36, Carrier, A rash of messianism in PalestineKnockout Quote No 182, Carrier, Indeed the Christians took it to a level of veritable lunacyKnockout Quote No 173, Carrier, The gospel writers are mythographers; novelists; propagandistsKnockout Quote No 164, Carrier, Some scholars have argued there was no Jesus ChristKnockout Quote No 162, Carrier, Romulus ascends to heaven to rule from on high, Just like JesusKnockout Quote No 139, Carrier, Could simply turn his bullets into popcornKnockout Quote No 120, Carrier, Almost the entire universe is lethal to lifeKnockout Quote No 110, Carrier, The Universe has been mixing chemicals for billions of yearsKnockout Quote No 107, Carrier, If God wants something from me, he would tell meKnockout Quote No 104, Carrier, Christianity is a bizarre cult, superstitionKnockout Quote No 50, Carrier, The Book of Revelation is a veritable acid trip
CCKQ No 431, Madison, God must have wanted more angelsCCCQ No 483, When Jesus comes back, almost all of humanity will be killed offKnockout Quote No 257, Clark, I found only shabby theological explanations and contrived excuses for GodKnockout Quote No 227, Winell & Tarico, Thus, believers not only get hurt, they get stuckKnockout Quote No 288, Tarico, Why has the main current of Christianity produced a steady diet of misogyny for 2000 years?Knockout Quote No 303, Nelson-Pallmeyer, The Bible can inform our religious experience, but it is often wrong about GodKnockout QuoteNo 271, Parsons, Christianity would never have amounted to much without a doctrine of hellKnockout Quote No 410, koseighty, If you start with the necessity of a human sacrifice to enable an omnipotent god to forgive his creationKnockout Quote No 485, Tobin, A first-century, xenophobic, ignorant Galilean peasant who thought the world was going to endKnockout Quote No 483, When Jesus comes back, almost all of humanity will be killed offKnockout Quote No 521, Harris, I hate to break it to you here at Notre DameKnockout Quote No 478, Sanchez, There is little question that the Holocaust had its origins in the centuries-long hostility
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
