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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Great quotes from noteworthy people (post 1)

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." -C.S. Lewis


"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." -Thomas Jefferson


"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight." -Mark Twain


Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men” - Voltaire


"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." -James Madison


"All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God." -Stephen Hawking


"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."  -Ferdinand Magellan 

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