770 sign on a fence "Salespeople and burglars welcome. Dog food is expensive.

2579 "It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity." [M.M. Mangasarian, _The Bible Unveiled_]

1566 "When we describe something as a random process or an event as occurring by chance, there are two very different things that we may have in mind. ...[One such concept of chance applies to processes] that are apparently random, but have a deterministic basis. ... The process is apparently random because we are ignorant of at least part of the deterministic basis. We use words like chance and random to indicate our ignorance. We should separate apparently random processes from irreducibly random processes. An irreducibly random process is one that has no deterministic basis. That is, for an irreducibly random process, there is no set of laws of nature that can be applied to a complete description of the initial state of the system to permit the deduction of a description of the outcome." Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982), p. 86.

2028 "I believe in serving God and trying to understand and obey God's will for our lives. Cynics may wave the idea away, saying God is a myth, useful in providing comfort to the ignorant and in keeping them obedient. I know in my heart - beyond all arguing and beyond any doubt - that the cynics are wrong." [Vice Pres. Al Gore's commencement address at Harvard, 1994]

1433 "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.

3090 "If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color." [Mark Schnitzius on alt.atheism]

2389 "...It was as if the interlopers had suggested to a bunch of born-again Christians that they hunt up the Ark of the Covenant and turn it into a pay toilet." [Stephen King (The Wastelands)]

2287 "When the people failed to worship one of these gods, or failed to feed and clothe his priests, (which was much the same thing,) he generally visited them with pestilence and famine. Sometimes he allowed some other nation to drag them into slavery -- to sell their wives and children; but generally he glutted his vengeance by murdering their firstborn. The priests always did their whole duty, not only in predicting these calamities, but in proving, when they did happen, that they were brought upon the people because they had not given quite enough to them." [Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Gods", 1872]

625 Sign seen on a bus "Illiterate? Write for free help."

844 "just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow

187 " DISCLAIMER If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will demonstrate."

3256 "In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him." [Jethro Tull, "Aqualung"]

2471 "From all this the conclusion follows that what we have here is not a historical tradition of a factual resurrection...but an assertion of faith. The stories of imagined apparitions are, for the most part, apologetic constructions for butressing belief by clothing it in material form. Whence it follows in this crucial case, as in that of miracles in general, that the only history we can glean from stories of supernatural magic is the history of belief." [Alfred Loisy, Catholic Modernist. bible scholar, Professor at the Institut Catholique in France from 1889 until his excommunication from the Church in 1908, writing on contradiction between various stories of the resurection]

236 "Religion is the original war crime." -- Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)

2646 "The delegates of the annual conference are decidedly opposed to modern abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention to interfere in the civil and political relation between master and slave in the slave-holding states of the union." [Methodist Episcopal Church, Statement of the General Conference, Cincinnati, May 1836]

2598 "On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park." [Curtis McDougall]

3578 "It's 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

1144 "Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions--and unwanted children living in misery." -- Gro Harlem Brundtland

165 "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God." -- Albert Einstein

2241 "Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice." [Robert Green Ingersoll]