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Danielsson, Tage
"Without doubt you are not sane."

Darrow, Clarence
"I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose."

Dawkins, Richard
"I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition."

Deveijan, David J.
"'God' as author? Hmmm, well, I guess you couldnt very well use 'Some random collection of nomadic hebrews and a bunch of misogynistic mithraists and jews living in the Roman Empire' as author, just too many possible variations.' (from talk.atheism)

Dick, Philip K.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".

Draper, John
"Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas."
[1811-1882, U.S. chemist]

Durant, Will
"Protestantism was the triumph of Paul over Peter. Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ."

Durant, Will and Ariel
"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. The Greek mind
dying, came to a tranmigrated life in the theology and liturgy of the
Church; the Greek language, having reigned for centuries over philosophy,
became the vehicle of Christian literature and ritual; the Greek mysteries
passed down into the impressive mystery of the Mass. Other pagan cultures contributed to the syncretist result. From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity, the Last Judgement, and a personal immortality of reward and punishment; from Egypt the adoration of the Mother and Child, and the mystic theosophy that made Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, and obscured the Christian creed; there, too, Christian moanasticism would find itsw exemplars and its source. From Phrygia came the worship of the Great Mother; from Syria the resurrection drama of Adonis; from Thrace, perhaps the cult of Dionysus, the dying and saving god. From Persia came millennarianism, the "ages of the world," the "final conflagration," the dualism of Satan and God, of Darkness and Light; already in the Forth Gospel Christ is the "Light shining in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out." The Mithraic ritual so closely resemled the eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass that Christian fathers charged the Devil with inventing these similarities to mislead frail minds. Christianity was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world."
The Story of Civilization

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