Brian Gortner:
CLASS OF 1990
Independence High SchoolClass of 1990
San jose, CA
Sierramont Middle SchoolClass of 1985
San jose, CA
Brian's Story
Brian is from San Jose, California. Brian's schools include Independence High School, Sierramont Middle School.
Music Brian likes includes Secular Cafe' Community of Free Thinkers, Atheist Roundtable, Pat Boone. Books Brian likes include Atheist Voices of Minnesota, Atheist Bliss, God Needs To Go: Why Christian Beliefs Fail. Movies Brian likes include The Brainwashing of My Dad, The Brainwashing of My Dad documentary, Jeremiah Camara. TV shows Brian likes include That Atheist Show, Age of Reason, Eye-Opening Documentaries.
One of Brian's favorite quotes is:"If I could change just one thing, it would be to disassociate the idea of faith from virtue.
~Christopher Hitchens
That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
~Christopher Hitchens
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
~Carl Sagan
The hands that help are far better than lips that pray.
~Robert Ingersoll
The only way to have faith is to have a closed mind.
~Robert Ingersoll
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
~Robert Ingersoll
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
~David Hume
Religion is the cultural expression of the most backward aspects of our species.
Faith is no virtue, demanding evidence is no vice.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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The silence of good people is even more destructive than the vicious behavior of those who are bigots.
~Dr. Martin Luther King
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known, Nor are any people so confident as those who sell us fables.
~Montaigne
A lie can travel all the way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Silence is consent
He who allows the oppression shares the crime.
One good school master is of more use than a hundred priests.
~Thomas Paine
Ignorance is propagated by silence.
~David Silverman
All religion my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
~Edgar Allan Poe
Harsh words can be defensible, false words can never be.
Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.
~Thomas Paine
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
~Thomas Paine
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythology.
~Thomas Jefferson
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
~Blaise Pascal
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
~Stephen Roberts
All thinking men are atheists.
~ Ernest Hemingway".
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