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"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
Frederick the Great

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
Frederick Douglass

"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."
Frank Sinatra

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
George Bernard Shaw

"The Bible is literature, not dogma."
George Santayana

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
George Bernard Shaw

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei

"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
H. L. Mencken

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
Henry Ward Beecher

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."
H. L. Mencken

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
Helen Keller

"A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
Helen Keller

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
Isaac Asimov

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
John Morley

"If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction."
Judith Hayes

"The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"
Judith Hayes

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