Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jilletteis an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth5 March 1955
CityGreenfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
atheism going-away needs
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.
punishment rewards morality
If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.
atheist sex believe
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.
government rights safety
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
atheist holiday everyday
Everyday is an atheist holiday.
motivational forgiveness memories
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.
atheist character giving
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.
hate proselytizing everlasting-life
How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?
trying agendas
When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
messages mediums
The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
feelings
Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.
world pay bills
That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.
feelings strongest
One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."
punishment rewards morality
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.