Brian Gortner:  

CLASS OF 1990
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San jose, CA
San jose, CA

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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 Simple answe...Expand for more
rs to complex problems are for simple minds. 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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Kate and I on Halloween
At Happy Hollow
Kate and I with her adopted grandfather Vlady.
About half of my Freethought Library
My precious baby Kate
Pizza with the guys from work
Me and my brothers
Taking Ultralight trike lessons
Patch Adams movie
Me on Bus ad
Me on Billboard ad
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Birthplace of the great Robert Ingersoll
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My little girl Kate. My reason for living.
Visiting my uncle Joe in Portland
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Welcome to my world Brad! Who knew we had so much in common.
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