"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in
the flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis
1. Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night — Isaac
Asimov
2. I don’t believe in God. My god is
patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the
problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie
3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest
Hemingway
4. Lighthouses are more
helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin
5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
6. The fact that a believer is happier than a
skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is
happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw
7. Say what you will about the sweet miracle of
unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and
absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut
8. I
believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright
9. Man will never be free until the last king is
strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot
10. A man is accepted into a church for what he
believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Samuel Clemens
11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so
foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to
humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals
will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud
12. Religion is regarded by the common people as
true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward
Gibbon
13. The church says the earth is flat, but I know
that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have
more faith in a shadow than in the church. — Ferdinand Magellan