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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]

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