boundries between Jews, Christians and Muslims, which really just ends up being counterproductive since as you point out they have so much history in common. And if a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim go to Starbucks for a coffee and decide to pray first, since each believes in only one God, that one God of each must have at least heard the prayers of the other 2, even if those guys got his name wrong.

Reptilicus:

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

Is H.L. Mencken, not Voltaire.

I've always seen it attributd to Voltaire

Read this again...

you can’t really be totally atheist towards Christianity and Islam. Both of these religions make the claim

I think the key word there is "claim." That other religions CLAIM that their God is one and the same as that of Moses does not mean that they ARE the same...or the same as each other.

...the keyboard's EVERYWHERE, in fact - it just evolved into a computer. I can only type well (well, fairly quickly, at least) because I learned to type in typing class back in 8th grade. Amazingly, I don't type that hard even though most of my home typing was on an old Royal desktop that weighed about 40 lbs and which you had to hit harder than a fortissimo piano.

You're correct about Wright's reaction to the Internet though, I'm sure...:)

...and he doesn't even bring the third person of the Trinity into the question. Add the Holy Spirit and things get REALLY complicated...:)

...is his summation of Presidential politics in America:

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

Nobody ever said it better...

I've also argued that the major faiths- excluding pagan gods, although, there could probably be a case made for that, too.- are all worshipping the same God. Even religions that don't have an actual god-figure like Buddhism. The Christian I was talking to at the time was a bit offended by that thought. But I see life more in metaphors and have an easy time finding common ground, whereas I know some people need their reality to be more concrete.

trying to get at, Horus. Are you saying you believe there is a Jewish god and a Christian god and an Islamic god, each of which exists separately from the others?

I like that quote, especially, "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." That's the part that Richard Dawkins has left out in the interviews I've seen him give where he has made a similar point, and it makes a big difference in effect.

I'm atheist with regard to just about every form of organized religion and agnostic with regard to Deism. (Some organized religion already shades into Deism; others are vague enough to be agnostic already, e.g., some forms of Zen).

not articulating a point very well.

True. One of the ubiquitous properties of quote mining, that.

These just tickled my cranium and I thought the collection (I did re-order them from the way they appeared on the linked site) was adequate for sharing here.

Couple that with the all-caps subject and, you know, elbow, rib, say no more. :)

"Couple that with the all-caps subject and, you know, elbow, rib, say no more. :)"

"A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man." One of the guys on Monty Python :)

Happy to be shown wrong, but pretty sure.

onio-:

Reptilicus:

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

Is H.L. Mencken, not Voltaire.

I've always seen it attributd to Voltaire

Per Google:

Voltaire

Voltaire

Voltaire

Lots more like these -- I am convinced

is on the "Highest rated" page, nicely done.