618 "Theism is like horse laxative. If you swallow it it will leave you empty and all you will be left with is a whole lot of shit!!"

1762 "The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes." [Thomas Huxley]

2662 "So you're a god, eh? Very nice, very nice. But, you still don't have a reservation..." [Monty Python]

3296 "I want the man bearing the cross to be _its_only_victim_." [Eugene Vintras (1807-1875)]

1411 "'God's' message in my dream was very different. It confirmed what I have come to believe -- that we are here on earth to live life fully. It helped me respect myself, and stop feeling wrong for doing what felt right. When I consider some kind of life-force, I now believe that she/he/it supports me in being who I am. There are no easy answers and life can get tough at times. Yet despite the ambiguity we all need to plunge ahead and do it anyway. We can find the courage and discover great joy." Marlene Winell, Leaving the Fold (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1993), pp. ix-x.

2873 "Christianity faces no greater enemy than the age of information." ["Psycho" Dave, Psycho0@ix.netcom.com]

1675 "If Jesus is the answer, then what was the question?" Jeffery Jay Lowder

1247 "What, then, should be our approach in apologetics? It should besomething like this: 'My friend, I know Christianity is true because God's Spirit lives in me and assures me that it is true. And you can know it is true, too, because God is knocking at the door of your heart, telling you the same thing. If you are sincerely seeking God, then God will give you assurance that the gospel is true. Now, to try to show you it's true, I'll share with you some arguments and evidence that I really find convincing. But should my arguments seem weak and unconvincing to you, that's my fault, not God's. It only shows that I'm a poor apologist, not that the gospel is untrue. Whatever you think of my arguments, God still loves you and holds you accountable. I'll do my best to present good arguments to you. But ultimately you have to deal, not with arguments, but with God himself.'" William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), p. 48.

508 "Best file compression around: "DEL ." = 100% compression."

3712 "Live your dash. ... On your tombstone, there's the date you're born and the date you die - and in between there's a dash. " [a friend quoted by Dustin Hoffman in Radio Times, 5-11 January 2013]

1162 "Inspired? The Bible is not even intelligent. It is not even good craftsmanship, but is full of absurdities and contradictions." -- E. Haldeman-Julius, The Meaning Of Atheism

521 "The magic of Windows: Turns a Pentium into an XT, instantly."

3162 "Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions."[Benjamin Spock]

2371 "In religious debate or expression the government is not a prime participant, for the Framers deemed religious establishment antithetical to the freedom of all. The Free Exercise Clause embraces a freedom of conscience and worship that has close parallels in the speech provisions of the First Amendment, but the Establishment Clause is a specific prohibition on forms of state intervention in religious affairs with no precise counterpart in the speech provisions. Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1, 92-93, and n. 127 (1976) (per curiam). The explanation lies in the lesson of history that was and is the inspiration for the Establishment Clause, the lesson that in the hands of government what might begin as a tolerant expression of religious views may end in a policy to indoctrinate and coerce. A state-created orthodoxy puts at grave risk that freedom of belief and conscience which are the sole assurance that religious faith is real, not imposed." [Justice Kennedy, opinion of the court in Lee v. Weisman]

3555 "What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine." [John Adams, letter to John Taylor]

795 "It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe in something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous." -- Gloria Steinem

1815 "The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler is that God is more proficient at genocide."

3043 "On a June day nearly 300 years ago, two young women were hanged in Salem village, and by the end of the summer, colonists had executed 13 women and seven men convicted of being witches." [San Francisco Chronicle, 13 April 1988 (AP)]

1792 "We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship." George Wald, U.S. biochemist "The Origin of Optical Activity," in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 69 (1957)

2482 "How many evils have flowed from religion." [Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 57 B.C.]