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All atheist, agnostics, nontheists, free thinkers, brights, humanist, naturalists (no, not the people who like to expose themselves, but in the sense that they are not SUPERnatualists), secularists, rationalists, realist, evolutionists, pantheists, apatheists, antitheists, pastafarians, and Invisible Pink Unicorn worshippers of Bentley College UNITE!
BSSA is a space for intellectual discussions, healthy profound debate, and a forum for non-religious individuals to express themselves.
All religious people are welcome to join and discuss relevant issues, we support healthy debate! (Just because you believe in something we don't, doesn't mean we can't be friends) But take notice that this is an atheistic group and any form of religious preaching and references to a divine persecution will be extensively laughed at, mocked, systematically debunked, then deleted (or continuously re-posted for future members to laugh at).
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What We Believe
1. Separation of religion and government. Religious liberty for all - including nontheists.
2. Natural explanations based on evidence lead to a better understanding of the world than supernatural faith based explanations.
3. Humanistic notions of equal rights and the inherent dignity of every human being.
4. The importance of science, rational thought, and critical inquiry.
5. Non-religious moral philosophy and the need to care for humanity as a whole in the absence of divine guidance.
6. To Live, To Love, and To Learn
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"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But a heresy it certainly is. Jesus told us indeed that 'God is a spirit,' but he has not defined what a spirit is, nor said that it is not matter. And the ancient fathers generally, if not universally, held it to be matter: light and thin indeed, an etherial gas; but still matter."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Treaty of Tripoly, article 11
- John Adams
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated."
- Ulysses S. Grant
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx
"The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind."
- Sigmund Freud
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
- Thomas Edison
"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States."
- Thomas Edison
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
- Isaac Asimov
"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism."
- Isaac Asimov
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
- Bertrand Russell
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none."
- Charlie Chaplin
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it."
- Oscar Wilde
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to see that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
- Douglas Adams
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