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   From: liberty@once.net   
      
   See what RELIGION does to peoples' minds?   
      
   Adults no longer believe in the Tooth Fairy - but they still torture and   
   kill each other over ancient myths and superstitions.   
      
   "We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love   
   and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind   
   intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell." --- Karl Popper   
      
   "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many   
   people suffer from a delusion, it is called Religion."   
    --- Robert M. Pirsig   
      
   Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot, or he can but does not want to.   
   If he wants to but cannot he is impotent. If he can but does not want to, he   
   is wicked. If he neither can nor wants to, then he is both powerless and   
   wicked.   
   --- Epicurus, Greek philosopher, circa 300 B.C.   
      
   "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and   
   evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that   
   takes religion."   
   --- Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999   
      
   "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false,   
   and by rulers as useful."   
   --- Seneca the Younger (4? BC - 65 AD)   
      
   "Religion once ruled the world. It was called the Dark Ages." --- Ruth   
   Green.   
      
   "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." ---   
   Victor Stenger.   
      
   "I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose." ---   
   Clarence Darrow   
      
   "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of   
   religion." --- Butterfly McQueen   
      
   "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." --- Mark Twain   
      
   "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in   
   all fiction." --- Richard Dawkins   
      
   "Cult today, religion tomorrow."   
      
   The Freedom From Religion Foundation:  http://ffrf.org/   
   The Secular Coalition for America:  www.secular.org   
   Secular Student Alliance:  www.secularstudents.org   
   www.infidels.org   
   www.humaniststudies.org   
   www.atheistalliance.org   
   www.americanhumanist.org   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)