The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide
just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
In the end, Religion will kill us all.
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!
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell
Children are naive -- they trust everyone.
School is bad enough, but, if you put a child
anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're
asking for trouble.
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your
mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to
do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden
history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of
knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is
because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could
be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking
mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they
be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
-- George Bush, to a reporter in 1988
But in the Bullshit Department, the businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.
'Cause I gotta tell ya the truth, folks, when it comes to Bullshit, big time, major league BULLSHIT,
you have to stand in awe, in awe, of the all time champion of false promises and
exaggerated claims: RELIGION! .... No contest, no contest!!
(thunderous applause)
Life is sacred? Who said so, God? Hey, if you read history you'll realize that God is one of the
leading causes of death...has been for thousands of years.
Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, all taking turns killing each other because
God told them it was a good idea.
Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial,
why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day
and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.
I've begun worshipping the Sun for a number of reasons. First of all,
unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the Sun. It's there for me every day.
And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day.
There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no
boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun
and the prayers I formerly offered to God are all answered at about the same
50-percent rate.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
* * * Book Review - The Fundamentals of Extremism "This book clearly outlines the causes and possible solutions to "the creeping darkness that seems to be enveloping America, and the rest of the World"."
Televangelist Joyce Meyer has risen from the pack of TV ministers (and from the ordinariness of her pre-preaching life)
by her uninhibited pursuit of donations ($95 million in 2003), according to a December St. Louis Post-Dispatch profile.
"Make your checks payable to Joyce Meyer Ministries," she shouted, "and 'million' is spelled m-i-l-l-i-o-n."
Of once receiving $1 million in stocks from a worshipper, she said, "I didn't have that (gift) for five minutes and I said,
'OK, God, next I'll take $5 million." "Fear," she reminds her parishioners, as in their fear of making sacrifices
in order to have more money to give her, "is the work of the devil."
[Tampa Tribune-St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-12-03]
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-- (Epicurus)
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
-- H. L. Mencken
Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance
for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world?
Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save
them from an imaginary hell.
-- H. L. Mencken
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper;
the Opposition employ a million.
-- Mark Twain
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian.
-- Mark Twain
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need
strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other
people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them
to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.
-- Gov. Jesse Ventura
I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?"
Of course. We know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell
These televangelists say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I think we've
all seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties...
-- Dennis Miller
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no
religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation
is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived
from faith.... We need believing people.
-- Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933
The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history,
a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging.
It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
-- William Rehnquist, Supreme Court
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by
the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-- Bertrand Russell
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while
praying for a fish.
--Timothy Jones