3412 "Don't put too much faith in the man who wants to know the distance to the nearest church before he has written his name in the hotel register." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading nd Other Essays_]

3168 "I know it isn't the fetus's fault, but the mother shouldn't have had an abortion if she didn't want the baby to go to hell." [Jim Staal, net.fundie.idiot]

3547 "Well, why did the Puritans come to this country?" a teacher asked his history class. "To worship in their own way and to make other people do the same" was the reply." [Frank Zindler]

1087 "I do not find in our particular superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology." -- Thomas Jefferson

3336 "Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." [Tom Waits]

3248 "That's the problem with believing in a supernatural being. Trying to determine what he wants." [Councellor Troi, ST:TNG]

1651 "The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed." [The Theological Works of Thomas Paine]

2674 "Faith is an absolutely marvelous tool. With faith there is no question too big for even the smallest mind." [Rev. Donald Morgan (b. 1933), "Atheist theologian"]

3181 "It is an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous." [Gloria Steinem]

676 "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." -- Immanuel Kant

2444 "One of the key figures of the Arab conquests is Khalid ibn al-Walid, the chief general of Abu Bakr. After fulfilling orders by restoring the status quo at the death of the Prophet, he decided for himself the problem of what to do next by embarking on a programme of military expansion. The real beginning of the Arab conquests is the Battle of 'Aqraba' in 633 in eastern Najd. The victory proved to the Arabs the capacity of the Medinese Government and the advisability of submitting to it. Thereafter a series of expeditions radiated in all directions" [Bernard Lewis, "The Arabs in History"]

3711 "Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." Philip K. Dick [what the dead men say, 1964]

3260 "If there is a God, he is a malign thug." [Mark Twain]

3067 "What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak." [George Santayana, Reason in Religion]

528 "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to continue."

1431 "You have picked a few squabbles with evolution, but you haven't even suggested for a moment what the mechanism is with which you would replace it." Barry Lynn in "Resolved: That evolutionists should acknowledge creation" _Firing Line_, 4 December 1997, p. 35.

2617 "Theology-An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing." [H.L. Mencken]

832 "God; (he's) my favorite fictional character." Homer Simpson

1043 "I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out." -- Denis Diderot

1914 "The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." [Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (973-1057; Syrian poet)]