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A Few Random Quotes

• “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” -- Bill Gates
  
  
• “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” -- Blaise Pascal
  
  
• “Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.” -- Forrest Church
  
  
• “The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.” -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
  
  
• “I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” -- Galileo Galilei
  
  
• “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.” -- George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• “The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.” -- H.L. Mencken
  
  
• “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.” -- Herbert Butterfield
  
  
• “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.” -- James Baldwin
  
  

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