The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church, as an organization, has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.
-- H. L. Mencken, Treatise on the Gods

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. Oâ??Rourke

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States willâ?¦restore to us theâ?¦genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors [Jesus]." 1823 (Jefferson, Extracts, 412,413) Thomas Jefferson

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous
as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
â??Edmund Burke (1790)

"I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do and to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race." -- Pope Paul III, 1576

"Faith is believing in what you know ain't true." --Mark Twain

"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?" - Robert G. Ingersoll

â??There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
-- Henry Thoreau


So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
--Bertrand Russell
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