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“If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Atheist #Atheism #Might
“I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Thinking #Order #Risk
“If you believe that thereâ€™s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hellâ€”or not getting eternal life or whateverâ€”and you think that, well, itâ€™s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?”
-- Penn Jillette

#Hate #Believe #Thinking
“The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Country #Airplane #Fighting
“Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Magic #Disrespectful #Modern
“You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Stupid #Self #Self Destructive
“Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Forgiveness #Memories #Kindness
“We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Stupid #Fighting #Smoking
“Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Atheism #Going Away #Needs
“Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Running #Sex #Technology
“God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways”
-- Penn Jillette

#Way #Mysterious
“Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Atheist #Sex #Believe
“People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Thinking #Compassion #People
“Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'”
-- Penn Jillette

#Crazy #Nice #Tolerance
“Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people”
-- Penn Jillette

#Government #Rights #Safety
“If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Punishment #Rewards #Morality
“It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Bullying #Gun #Thinking
“You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Libertarian #Sound #Republican
“The word â€˜holidayâ€™ comes from â€˜holy dayâ€™ and holy means â€˜exalted and worthy of complete devotion.â€™ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is holy. Atheists have joy every day of the year, every holy day. We have the wonder and glory of life. We have joy in the world before the lord is come. Weâ€™re not going for the promise of life after death; weâ€™re celebrating life before deathâ€¦For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. Itâ€™s a day that weâ€™re alive.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Atheist #Holiday #Mean
“The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. Heâ€™s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? Thereâ€™d be riots in the streets about the people weâ€™re killing. And yet because itâ€™s Obama, and heâ€™s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Reading #Differences #Numbers
“Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'”
-- Penn Jillette

#Taste #Admission
“If you believe that thereâ€™s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?”
-- Penn Jillette

#Hate #Believe #Heaven
“I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Believe #Libertarian #Association
“All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Looking Good #Magician
“The medium is not the message - the message is the message.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Messages #Mediums
“It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?”
-- Penn Jillette

#Atheist #Real #Love You
“TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Reality #Giving #Dying
“How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?”
-- Penn Jillette

#Hate
“Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Sports #Feelings
“Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.”
-- Penn Jillette

#Government #Educated #Uneducated

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