"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-- Archbishop Helder Camara
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
-- Carl Sagan
To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
-- Julian Ruck
"Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran, followed by the final battle: the battle of Armageddon . . . . The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. The best is yet to be."
-- Televangelist and McCain endorser John Hagee
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
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages—as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
-- Edward Abbey
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
clipped from edkrebs.com
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