2930 "It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians" [Pat Robertson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sept. 14, 1993]

1160 "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." -- Mark Twain

3550 "Those Jesus freaks, well they're friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut." [Frank Zappa, "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"]

3202 "For those of us who have not believed, it is not expected to be very jolly." [David Stoll, "Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire?"]

1947 "I got enough guilt to start my own religion" [Tori Amos]

2890 "Ask youself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves--or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." [Ayn Rand]

1183 "Autumn wind: gods, Buddha-- lies, lies, lies" --Shiki

1967 "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power...." [Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,Q92, art. 1, Reply Obj. 1]

1810 "Never join a religion that has a water slide."

405 "The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity." -- Richard Carlisle (1790-1843), English writer

1807 A preacher's wife proofread his Sunday sermon and wrote next to one paragraph: "Weak point--shout loud".

562 "This will end your Windows session, do you wish to play another game?"

2726 "No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded." [Jawaharlal Nehru - a Biography vol. I , Sarvepalli Gopal]

3318 "If God made us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment." [Voltaire]

798 "There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's MasterCard." -- TV commercial

3034 "Father Junipero Serra moved closer to sainthood when a miracle attributed to the Spanish friar was 'confirmed' by Pope John Paul II yesterday. ...The miracle was reported by a Franciscan nun, Sister Bonafice Dyrda, who said she was cured in 1960 of a skin disease, diagnosed as lupus, after praying to Serra. ...A group of Indians held a two-day prayer vigil in Carmel to protest the pope's visit to Serra's grave at Carmel Mission. The group charged that Serra set the policies for the Spanish priests and soldiers that led to the death of 80 percent of the local Indian population." [Michael McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 December 1987]

335 "The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history." --- Robert A. Heinlein

2455 "It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a FACT, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution." [R. C. Lewontin "Evolution/Creation Debate: A Time for Truth" Bioscience 31, 559 (1981) reprinted in EVOLUTION VERSUS CREATIONISM]

1665 "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." Thomas Jefferson

87 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should believeth all sorts of other ridiculous nonsense as well."