Quotes - Page C
Cardinal Bellamine
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous
as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
[1615, during the trial of Galileo]
Carlin, George
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible
man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute
of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things
he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things
he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and
torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer
and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until
the end of time...but he loves you."
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and
State. My
idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their
own,
so both of them together is certain death."
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol
was a guy
nailed to two pieces of wood."
Churchill, Sir John
"We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute
emotion for evidence."
Clemens, Samuel (See Twain, Mark)
Cohen, Chapman
"Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of
science or a dose of common sense."
Cotes, Alison
"One of the earliest Christian heresies, which was quickly
knocked on the head (sic) by the church hierarchy, was called
Gnosticism, whose adherents claimed to 'know' the truth about
God by direct revelation."
[In "The Courier Mail", 1996]