History Quotes / OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions

-->-- '''Captain Kirk''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

-->-- ''Creator/CarlSagan''

-->-- ''Creator/CarlSagan''

-->-- ''Creator/MarkTwain'', ''Notebook''

->'''Bruce''': Is this in the old days, when people still put ice in their drinks and believed in someone named God?
->'''Mark''': [laughs] Yes. I know it sounds ridiculous, but there was a time when people were so stupid they believed in a man called God.
->'''Bruce''': It's hard to imagine people actually being that stupid.
->'''Mark''': Oh, they must have been incredibly stupid! [laughs]

->''I am for that thing in your genome that demands it. I am for that thing which keeps you animals alive. I am, at most, a slice of monkey suspended within the stuff of universal intelligence. You are a monkey in nice clothes.''
->''In the harsh environment you refer to as a habitable planet, group behaviors are required to survive long enough to procreate. Since you are stupid monkeys, you have no natural affinity for group altruism.''
->''And so you have evolved a genetic pump that delivers pleasant chemicals to your monkey brains. One that is triggered by awe and fear of an anthropomorphism of your environment. Earth mothers. Sky gods. Bits of bush that catch fire. Interesting-looking rocks. An oddly-shaped branch. You’re not fussy.''
->''When your brain does this idiot work, you stop in front of that bump or stick and consider it fiercely. Other monkeys will, like as not, stop next to you and emulate you. You genetic pump delivers morphine for you souls. You have your fellow monkeys join in. Perhaps so they can feel it too. Perhaps because you feel it might please the stick god to have more monkeys gaze at it in narcotic awe.''
->''The group must be defended. Because as many monkeys as possible must please the stick god, and you can continue to get your fix off praying to it.''
->''You draw up rules to organize and protect the group. Two hundred thousand years later, you put Adolf Hitler into power. Because you are, after all, just monkeys.''

-->-- ''attributed to Creator/{{Voltaire}}''

-->-- ''attributed to UsefulNotes/MaoZedong''

-->-- Creator/JohnCWright, "[[http://www.scifiwright.com/2011/02/science-fiction-faith-and-catwoman/ Science Fiction, Faith and Catwoman]]"

->"My son is dying, Dr. Warren. I will not allow that to happen again. There’s only room for [[AGodAmI one]] God in this lab, and it’s not yours."

->'''Walter Bishop:''' My son is dying, Dr. Warren. I will not allow that to happen again. There’s only room for [[AGodAmI one]] God in this lab, and it’s not yours.
-->-- ''Series/{{Fringe}}''

-->-- ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea''

-> Education on the value of free speech and the other freedoms reserved by the Bill of Rights, about what happens when you don't have them, and about how to exercise and protect them, should be an essential prerequisite for being an American citizen—or indeed a citizen of any nation, the more so to the degree that such rights remain unprotected. If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

->''[...] the idea that religion is hooey is found in practically any science fiction book that touches the subject: I will mention ''[[Literature/GatherDarkness Gather, Darkness]]'' by Creator/FritzLeiber, ''Literature/SixthColumn'' by Heinlein, ''Literature/{{Foundation|1951}}'' by Asimov (especially the section called 'Literature/TheTraders'), ''[[Literature/PlayersOfNullA Players of Null-A]]'' by Creator/AEVanVogt; ''Literature/GodsOfMars'' by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs (and its hentai knock-off ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Priest-Kings of Gor]]'' by Creator/JohnNorman); ''[[Literature/BookOfTheLongSun Nightside the Long Sun]]'' by Creator/GeneWolfe; ''TheCityOfTheChasch'' by Creator/JackVance — all of these stories and many more concern gullible or ignorant worshipers bowing to aliens or to machines or to alien machines as gods. The gods in an SF book usually have a natural rather than a supernatural explanation, and the preferred explanation is the deceptions of priestcraft. As in ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' cartoons, [[ScoobyDooHoax the ghost turns out to be Mr. McGreedy from the Haunted Museum in a rubber mask.]]''
-->--Creator/JohnCWright, "[[http://www.scifiwright.com/2011/02/science-fiction-faith-and-catwoman/ Science Fiction, Faith and Catwoman]]"

-->--'''Perturabo''', ''Literature/HorusHeresy''

->''[...] the idea that religion is hooey is found in practically any science fiction book that touches the subject: I will mention ''Gather, Darkness'' by Creator/FritzLeiber, ''Literature/SixthColumn'' by Heinlein, ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' by Asimov (especially the section called ‘The Traders’), ''Players of Null-A'' by Creator/AEVanVogt; ''Gods of Mars'' by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs (and its hentai knock-off ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Priest-Kings of Gor]]'' by John Norman); ''[[Literature/BookOfTheLongSun Nightside the Long Sun]]'' by Gene Wolfe; ''The City of the Chasch'' by Creator/JackVance — all of these stories and many more concern gullible or ignorant worshipers bowing to aliens or to machines or to alien machines as gods. The gods in an SF book usually have a natural rather than a supernatural explanation, and the preferred explanation is the deceptions of priestcraft. As in Franchise/ScoobyDoo cartoons, [[ScoobyDooHoax the ghost turns out to be Mr. [=McGreedy=] from the Haunted Museum in a rubber mask.]]''

-->-- '''Morrigan Lugus''', ''Comic/{{Supergod}} #3''

-->-- ''Series/KidsInTheHall''

-->-- ''KidsInTheHall''

-->-- '''Morrigan Lugus''', ''{{Supergod}} #3''

-->-- ''attributed to MaoZedong''

->''[...] the idea that religion is hooey is found in practically any science fiction book that touches the subject: I will mention ''Gather, Darkness'' by Creator/FritzLeiber, ''Literature/SixthColumn'' by Heinlein, ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' by Asimov (especially the section called ‘The Traders’), ''Players of Null-A'' by Creator/AEVanVogt; ''Gods of Mars'' by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs (and its hentai knock-off ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Priest-Kings of Gor]]'' by John Norman); ''[[Literature/BookOfTheLongSun Nightside the Long Sun]]'' by Gene Wolfe; ''The City of the Chasch'' by Creator/JackVance — all of these stories and many more concern gullible or ignorant worshippers bowing to aliens or to machines or to alien machines as gods. The gods in an SF book usually have a natural rather than a supernatural explanation, and the preferred explaination is the deceptions of priestcraft. As in ScoobyDoo cartoons, [[ScoobyDooHoax the ghost turns out to be Mr. [=McGreedy=] from the Haunted Museum in a rubber mask.]]''

-->-- ''CarlSagan''

-->-- ''CarlSagan''

-->--Creator/JohnCWright, "[[http://www.scifiwright.com/2011/02/science-fiction-faith-and-catwoman/ Science Fiction, Faith and Catwoman]]"

-->-- '''[[TheKirk Captain Kirk]]''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

->''[...] the idea that religion is hooey is found in practically any science fiction book that touches the subject: I will mention ''Gather, Darkness'' by Creator/FritzLeiber, ''Literature/SixthColumn'' by Heinlein, ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' by Asimov (especially the section called ‘The Traders’), ''Players of Null-A'' by Creator/AEVanVogt; ''Gods of Mars'' by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs (and its hentai knock-off ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Priest-Kings of Gor]]'' by John Norman); ''[[Literature/BookOfTheLongSun Nightside the Long Sun]]'' by Gene Wolfe; ''The City of the Chasch'' by Creator/JackVance — all of these stories and many more concern gullible or ignorant worshippers bowing to aliens or to machines or to alien machines as gods. The gods in an SF book usually have a natural rather than a supernatural explanation, and the preferred explaination is the deceptions of priestcraft. As in ScoobyDoo cartoons, the ghost turns out to be Mr. [=McGreedy=] from the Haunted Museum in a rubber mask.''

-> "Ever hear the phrase 'there's no atheists in a foxhole'? I've been in a lot of foxholes."
-->-- possible response to Ashley Williams' asking Shepard if being religious bothers him/her, ''VideoGame/{{Mass Effect|1}}''

-->-- ''Carl Sagan''

-->-- ''Carl Sagan''

-->-- ''Mark Twain'', ''Notebook''

-->-- ''attributed to Voltaire''

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-->-- '''[[TheKirk Captain Kirk]]''', ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

->''"[[{{Irony}} One hundred years from my day]] there will not be a {{Bible}} in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker."''