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"Science and reason are important, but science and reason won’t visit you in the hospital."

~ GREG EPSTEIN

"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."

~ CLARENCE DARROW

"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest.

"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."

~ PETER USTINOV

"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."

~ PETER USTINOV

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."

~ BERTRAND RUSSELL

"The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, 'There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.'"

~ KURT VONNEGUT

"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."

~ EDITH SITWELL

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."

~ WALT WHITMAN

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

~ RICHARD DAWKINS

"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."

~ DELOS B. McKOWN

"Deaths in the Bible. God: responsible for 2,270,365 -- not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc., because no specific numbers were given. Satan: responsible for 10."

~ UNKNOWN

"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"

~ CLARK ADAMS

"The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it."

~ ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."

~ RICHARD JENI