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#2123: "The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief." [E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Church Is a Burden, Not a Benefit, In Social Life"]

#2056: "Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood.... Vaccination never saved human life. It does not prevent smallpox." [_The Golden Age_, (predecessor to _Awake!_), Feb. 4, 1931 (Jehovah's Witnesses)]

#1286: "[O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false." Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, (First edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 256.

#3157: "Shelley was familiar with tyranny and intolerance. In 1811, while yet an undergraduate, he'd had the 'The Necessity of Atheism' published at Worthing in Sussex. It appeared for sale in the bookshop window of Munday and Slater's for just twenty minutes. The brevity of the sale was due, unfortunately, not to an exhaustion of the edition, but the appearance upon the scene of a clerical wowser yclept John Walker. The good Rev., strolling by the bookstore, saw the essay upon display, and exhibiting correct Christian indignation, upbraided the two miserable sinners. The pamphlets were removed and burned in true Hitlerian fashion - except for one that Slater kept, and which is the surviving copy." [Joseph Sapere]

#2341: "Man should cease to expect aid from on high. By this time he should know that heaven has no ear to hear, and no hand to help. The present is the necessary child of all the past. There has been no chance, and there can be no interference." [Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Gods", 1872]

#1520: "Few theologians would care to pursue their research to its logical conclusion and finally assert, as did Thomas Paine, that the biblical account of Jesus 'has every mark of fraud and imposition stamped upon the face of it.'" George Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1989), pp. 203-204.

#1861: Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable is always a perilous business.

#1586: "My faith is strong I don't need proofs, but every time a new fact comes along it simply confirms my faith." Palmer Joss in Carl Sagan's Contact (New York: Pocket Books, 1985), p. 172.

#2184: "Organized Religion is like Organized Crime; it preys on peoples' weakness, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate." [Mike Hermann (hermann@cs.ubc.ca)]

#2613: "The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth." [Martin Luther]

#600: "No matter how hard you try, you can't throw a potato chip very far." -=Linus=-

#312: "Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." -- Charles Schulz

#1764: "The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action." [Albert Einstein]

#95: "Morality is moral only when it is voluntary."

#3348: "There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in ll other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt." [Mark Twain, "Reflections on Religion"]

#2609: "At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him." [Martin Luther]

#3025: "Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side." [Stanley Ralph Ross]

#543: "I used dip switches and connector wires to speed up my computer."

#1988: "If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?" [Anonymous]

#1958: "If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!" [Clark Adams]

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