Agnosticism / Atheism: What's Hot Now: Religion Quotes - Thomas Alva Edison

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Religion Quotes - Thomas Alva Edison Feb 6th 2012, 11:07 My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. [Thomas Edison, Do We Live Again?] All Bibles are man-made. [Thomas Edison] So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk. [Thomas Edison] I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. [Thomas Alva Edison, Columbian Magazine] I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. [Thomas Edison] To those seaching for truth - not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. [Thomas Edison] I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul... No, all this talk of an existence beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end. [Thomas Edison, quoted in 2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996] The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. [Thomas Edison, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations] What fools. [Thomas Edison, commenting on he spectacle of hundreds of thousands making a pilgrimage to the grave of an obscure priest in Massachusetts, in the hope of effecting miraculous cures, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations] Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. [Thomas Edison, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations] It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! [Thomas Edison on Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotation] Back To: Freethought Quotations Index Get weekly updates about what's new on the site and news from around the world: Read the Latest News on religion, freethought and related topics from around the world! Updated regularly. Make your opinions be heard on the Bulletin Board or Chat Room! Archived Articles: by topic & by date

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