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1318 "Particulars are established by attempting to verify each item, either by the confirmation of independent sources or by comparative evidence." Robert W. Funk, Honest to Jesus (San Fransisco: Polebridge Press, 1996), p. 60.

2210 "There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman." [Victor Hugo]

2725 "The applications of science are inevitable and unavoidable for all countries and peoples today. But something more than its application is necessary. It is the scientific approach, the adverturous and yet critical temper of science, the search for the truth and new knowledge, the refusal to accept anything without testing and trial, the capacity to change previous conclusions in the face of new evidence, the reliance on observed fact and not on preconceived theory, the hard discipline of the mind all this is necessary, not merely for the application of science but for life itself and the solution of its many problems." [Jawaharlal Nehru, former Prime Minister of India]

419 "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

1019 "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall." -- Thomas Paine, Age of Reason

2251 "I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not." [Robert G. Ingersoll]

2426 "radical antiabortion groups like Operation Rescue and Rescue America have to be dealt with as domestic terrorists as deadly as the ones who blew up the World Trade Center and as fanatic as the cultists in Waco. " [John Laws]

2497 "God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error." [Martin Luther]

480 "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, de-briefed, or numbered...My life is my own." -- No. 6

3127 "Too much thinking can give people diabetes. It is not sugar that causes diabetes, it's thinking. We can cure diabetes. After realization. And this new thing AIDS. After realization we can cure that too." [Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, yet another Eastern mystic]

1088 "God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture." -- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

3130 "The "dropping of context" -- deliberately and deceitfully -- by Creationist "spokesmen" is part of their game of fraud in the "use" of quotations from scientists. And it "works" (rhetorically, for the kinds of audience in front of which they use it) when the readers do NOT have the basic background in critical reading..." [Michael Siemon, in talk.religion.misc]

3178 "The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion." [Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Eight Years and More"]

1822 If you ask the wrong questions you get answers like '42' or 'God'.

459 "Christianity is a pestilent superstition." -- Tacitus (55-120 CE), Roman poet

600 "The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in Heaven for cash down." -- R.G. Ingersoll

973 "God, Invisible Pink Unicorns, belly button lint from a one-eyed giant, they're all equally acceptable answers."

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

2966 "The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government." [R.J. Rushdoony, Reconstructionist theologian, from _The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism In America_, published by ADL]

2502 "Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child- bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for." [Martin Luther, Works 20.84]


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