456 "They define God's nature as spirit incorporeal and then confess their definition to be unintelligable." -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

1853 Organized religion is responsible for the brainwashing of millions of young children too young to know the difference between reality and the fantasies of millions. Save Yourself. Drop Christianity.

3389 "A theologian is a person who uses the word "God" to hide his ignorance." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]

2060 "Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction." [E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism"]

1451 "Even assuming that God was willing to wait a long time and to confine his interest to just a small bit of space, there is the question why he didn't do a better job with evolution. He is supposed to be all-loving. Why, then, didn't he set up evolution in a way which would cause less suffering to the organisms involved in it? One thing he could have done would have been to increase the proportion of beneficial mutations within the total set of mutations. Instead of having only about one out of a thousand mutations turn out beneficial to the organism and the species, why not have it, say, one out of five? That would certainly have speeded up the evolutionary process and eliminated much unnecessary suffering along the way. It is an additional bit of "fine-tuning" that one would expect from the sort of being described in G." Theodore Drange, "The Fine-Tuning Argument" (1998)

2833 "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics." [Wendell Phillips, Speech, 7 November 1860]

2050 "Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies." [John Haldane, "Science and Life: Essays of a Rationalist"]

1853 Organized religion is responsible for the brainwashing of millions of young children too young to know the difference between reality and the fantasies of millions. Save Yourself. Drop Christianity.

782 "As for the 'stories' in the Bible. They are all true... at least those that have happened."

101 "I do not believe in immortality of the individuals and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it." --Albert Einstein

2716 "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]

981 "Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable is always a perilous business."

3153 "The sweep [of the Establishment Clause] is broad enough that Madison himself characterized congressional provisions for legislative and military chaplains as unconstitutional -establishments.- Madison's Detached Memoranda- 558-559"] [Justice Souter, concurring opinion in Lee Vs. Weisman]

444 "One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

623 "I found him, I've got Jesus in the trunk"

2666 "Tonight, instead of discussing the existence or non- existence of God, they have decided to fight for it." [Monty Python]

369 "A skeptic is a no nonsense kinda guy."

2499 "A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him." [Martin Luther]

856 "The Church says that the world is flat but I know that it is round for I have seen its shadow on the moon and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." -- Ferdinand Magellan

1674 "Beware of the man of one book." Thomas Aquinas