1399 "Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great Before ..." Judith Hayes, "Where Were You Before You Were You?"

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.

2134 "There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores." [Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 1988) _Methuselah's Children_ ASF c.1941]

2808 "Your sweet little book is a bizarre collection of out-of-context quotations, misquotations, misleading quotations, non sequiturs, errors of fact and just about every other dirty intellectual trick known to man." [Tim O'Neill, on the JW's anti-evolution book]

57 "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1802

874 "Playing God, at least while you're alive, is very difficult. You must do absolutely nothing." -- ZZ

1610 "Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of the world is folly with God." Paul, 1 Corinthians 3:18-19

1590 What was Carl Sagan's perspective on religion, according to his widow? "Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know." Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan's widow)

2427 "One of the conditions (for escaping the stake) was that of stating all they knew of other heretics and apostates, which proved an exceedingly fruitful source of information as, under the general terror, there was little hesitation in denouncing not only friends and acquaintances, but the nearest and dearest kindred -- parents and children, and brothers and sisters." [Henry Charles Lea, History of the Inquisition of Spain]

2535 "What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed." [Martin Luther]

1653 "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]

1946 "Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock." [Anaxagorus, ca. 475 BC]

566 "The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment sent of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the Bible position of women briefly summed up." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

3631 "Borg-Cola: Not the choice of the next generation."

2963 "God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals." [R.J. Rushdoony, Reconstructionist theologian, in a letter to Mel White]

1499 "The word [Christian] does not have quite such a full-blooded meaning how as it had in the times of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. In those days, if a man said that he was a Christian it was known what he meant. You accepted a whole collection of creeds which were set out with great precision, and every single syllable of those creeds you believed with the whole strength of your convictions. Nowadays it is not quite that. We have to be a little more vague in our meaning of Christianity." Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957), p. 4.

2792 "The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell." [Sean P. Ningen]

2631 "Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell." [H.L. Mencken]

3387 "The beating of humanity's heart cannot be felt by placing the finger on the church's pulse." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]

3470 "The blood in any person is in reality the person himself. ... poisons due to personal living, eating and drinking habits ... The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood. Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes - these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion." [Watchtower 9/15/61 page 564]