I've neglected this for a while, but I'm bringing it back. This one made me smile in light of recent events:
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!"
- Jerry Falwell, 1979.
Hmm...I guess not.
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
- Isaac Asimov
"It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn"
- From Galileo Galilei's Dialogue, 1632.
"Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is the denial—at once full of hope and full of fear—of the vastitude of human ignorance."
- Sam Harris, from The End of Faith.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."
- Creationist Ray Mummert from Dover, Pennsylvania, 2005.
At least he can admit it.
"Here at Focus on the Family, we're not political."
- Dr. James Dobson still being a dirty liar (source). This would be hilarious if he didn't control so many people.
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
- Richard Dawkins
"I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected him from your city…And don’t wonder why he hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I’m not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that’s the case, don’t ask for his help because he might not be there. "
- Pat Robertson after the Kitzmiller v. Dover School Board ruling.
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
- Martin Luther shows us why religion rarely gets along with science
“My answer to my kid being forced fed prayer?
No I have no problem with the school requesting that my child pray with the rest of the class.
Now if he were forced to pray to a Allah then I would have a problem with that.”
- Response from a fundamentalist Christian on DefCon's comments page. Is he so blinded by his faith that he is incapable of seeing an issue from the other side?
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
- Steven Colbert roasting President Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Diner.
"Behead those who say Islam is a violent religion."
- From the banner of a British Muslim protesting the Danish Muhammed cartoons. Ironic? I think so.
"Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
–Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999
"If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin."
- Florida Congresswoman Katherine Harris (also, not likely to win reelection next week)
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. "
- Ann Coulter in all her wisdom. Good thing she doesn't set policy.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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