Today’s Quote – 2007.11.07

“Y’know, it’s funny how people can fly in a plane, write a sermon on a laptop, listen to gospel on an iPod, touchdown via radar, walk through automatic doors into an air-conditioned megachurch where they can stand on an hydraulic stage beneath a thousand electric lights – - and then give a speech skeptical of science.”

—Bill Maher

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Video at: Huffington Post

Today’s Quote – 2007.10.31

“By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars. . . . Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northem Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”

—Barry Goldwater, 1981

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Today’s Quote – 2007.10.23

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church”

—Thomas Paine

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Today’s Quote – 2007.10.16

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

—Thomas Paine

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Today’s Quote – 2007.06.16

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” —Thomas Paine

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Today’s Quote – 2007.06.13

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Today’s Quote – 2007.04.06

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal

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Today’s Quote – 2007.04.04

“This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.” —John Steinbeck

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Today’s Quote – 2007.03.16

“A cult is a religion with no political power.” –Tom Wolfe

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Today’s Quote – 2007.03.10

“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief… for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”

—Mark Twain

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