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Gene Roddenberry1921–1991

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Gene Roddenberry on God

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What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, “Mission Logs: Year Five”, “A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry”, 0:26:09)
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More against God

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain1835–1910
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Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CCChapman Cohen1868–1954Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in “Breaking the Last Taboo” (1996) by James A. Haught

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