3363 "No church has all the truth, and no school either. So-called religion merely shows where the search after truth ended. But truth is the infinite reality,, and it will always be for man to find." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]

2149 "Death opens her cavernous mouth before you. Thousands upon thousands of children are consumed by her every day. You have the ability to save some from being tossed into her gaping mouth. As hundreds are being rushed into eternity, other questions shrink in comparison to the weighty question, 'Should we defend born and unborn children with force?' "_Take defensive action!_" [Rev. Paul J. Hill, abortion doctor murderer]

3332 "To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters." [Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764]

3554 "If the lord had meant us to have faith, he'd have given us lobotomies." [Zlatko]

1104 "The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1984 "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell." [Saint Augustine]

2354 "No one has an idea really of where we should draw the line. What about the Bible? Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. You have Shakespeare and you have Sophocles--what are we going to do, lose _Oedipus Rex_ if someone pokes an eye out?" [Penn Jillette, from Reason magazine, on censorship of violent TV shows]

550 "Dad, what does "FORMATTING DRIVE C: 90% DONE" mean?"

1221 "Why don't we teach astrology in the schools? Astrology holds that the course of each human life is determined to a considerable degree by the position of the stars in the sky at the exact moment of the individual's birth. Belief in it, in one variant or another, has probably been held by most of the people on earth. Even today, some universities in India offer degrees in the subject. Yet American believers do not pressure boards of education to add their subject to the curriculum. If believers in astrology became as well organized as the creationists, it is hard to see how their demands could be withstood." Garrett Hardin, "Marketing Deception as Truth" Science and Creationism, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 162.

658 "God-who is said to have created everything from nothing and to have done so with no help from anyone is now completely helpless to do anything at all without the assistance of an army of clergymen and the charity of a flock of faithful followers." -Rev. Donald Morgan

39 "Man creates his gods in his own image; and then spends the rest of his life manipulating them to his heart's content."

2458 "The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." [Abraham Lincoln]

3537 "So, when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, if you go for all these fairy tales, that "evil" woman convinced the man to eat the apple, but the apple came from the Tree of Knowledge. And the punishment that was then handed down, the woman gets to bleed and the guy's got to go to work, is the result of a man desiring, because his woman suggested that it would be a good idea, that he get all the knowledge that was supposedly the property and domain of God. So, that right away sets up Christianity as an anti- intellectual religion. You never want to be that smart. If you're a woman, it's going to be running down your leg, and if you're a guy, you're going to be in the salt mines for the rest of your life. So, just be a dumb fuck and you'll all go to heaven. That's the subtext of Christianity." [Frank Zappa]

2670 Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock Don't put us on the barbeque or simmer us in stock, Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok." Monty Python]

1046 "My mind is my own church." -- Thomas Paine

2479 "We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides." [Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus [Jesuits], Exercitia spiritualia, 1541]

206 "Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage." -- Dennis Potter

2604 "Better sleep with a sober cannibal that a drunken Christian." [Herman Melville]

3070 "What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak." [George Santayana, Reason in Religion]

119 "I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes, but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent." -- Arthur C. Clarke