Glad you religious folk are finally receiving and accepting good old athiestic "reason."
Here's a few more gems of wisdom from your "truth talker" du jour;
"The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out".
And
"Faith is the grip that clergy have over you. It's the invisible rope around your neck that pulls you along the road they want you to travel, for their benefit, not yours. It's a dead-end word. It's a word of bondage. It's a word that lets you believe what you've been told to believe, without feeling that you've been told what to believe, but you have, and you can stop pretending any time you like. It's not a virtue, that's the last thing it is. It's an abdication from reality. It's a dumb act of self-hypnosis. It's a cowardly cop-out. It's gullibility with a halo, and hiding behind it is like pretending to be an invalid."
And
"Maybe you think the way to deal with [the abuses of religion] is to engage it in polite debate and to make all your little points and counterpoints and show us all what a clever dick you are, and thatÂ’ll be great fun for youÂ… You havenÂ’t got a cause. What youÂ’ve got is a hobby.
[I wish I could be saved from] the curse of polite and deferential atheists. Religion is out of control right now precisely because too many people have been too diplomatic for too long. If weÂ’d had the balls to do some straight-talking years ago when we should have and put this insulting nonsense in its rightful place with astrology and palmistry, we wouldnÂ’t be talking about this right now. WeÂ’d be doing something more useful with our time. What a waste of an Enlightenment."
For more words of wisdom from Pat go to
Athiesm, Reason and Truth