Quotes - Page Z
Zangwill, Israel
"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan --
spoiled."
[British playwright, novelist. Sons of the Ghetto, bk.
2, ch. 6 (1892)]
Zindler, Frank
"Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only
produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are
mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys,
the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin
birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been..."
[Zindler's own punctuations, in a note to the debate Does
God exist? with John Koster
Zlatko
"If the Lord had meant us to have faith, he'd have given
us lobotomies."
Zola, Emile
"Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism
which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced
to retreat."
[1840-1902, French novelist, from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of
Religion]