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“We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.”

“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

Years Firsts Spirit Religion Jesus Christianity Teach Five Holy Equal Inspired Holy Spirit Glorious Revelations Five Years Flash Inward Illumination Theological Seminary

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”

Years Firsts Persons Religion Found Lost Hell Atheism One Day Prove First Time Strikes Flesh Satan Paradise Secular Forbidden Sandwiches Ham Swine Thunderbolts

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.”

People Years Heart Two Different Light Religion Spirituality Changed Taught Divine Particular Recognizing Awakened Divine Light

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”

“I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.”

Writing Years Believe Humans Doe Different Religion Effects Huge Bounds Affair Different Things Keep Going Fascinated Fascination Spills

Author:Douglas Adams

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.”

Years Children Today School Christian Religion Culture Fighting Years Ago Our Children Former Savages Public School Pioneers

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”

Years Made Book Religion Destruction Possession Criminals Destroyed Copies Buried Burned Offense Egypt Monk Jars Banned Monasteries Banned Books

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.”

Years Lasts Political Religion Ten

Author:John Lennon

“The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.”

Years Religion Three Agree Victim Survivor Three Years Holocaust Frank Gathering Chairman Baptized Proxy Holocaust Survivor

Author:Maureen Dowd

“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”

Years Firsts Has Beens States Religion Church Effort Study Regard Practicals Thirty Reasonable Thirty Years Programmes Free State

Author:Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

“[There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.”

Years Christian Religion Found Women Religious Divine Expression Criticism Connections Depth Feminist Urgency Christian Women

Book:The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

Source: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy

“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”

Years Wells Religion Difficult Women Cutting Sea Influence Land Periods Thousand Paid Seven Extremes Miles Boundaries Significance Reverence Goddess Longevity Thousand Years Immensity Expanse

Author:Merlin Stone

“Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression.”

Knows World Years Humans Has Beens Religion Humanity Religious Dark Ignorance Shadow Casts Curse Suppression

Author:David Icke

“In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.”

Years Children Matter Religion Adults Years Of Experience

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.”

Years Humans God Funny Past Religion Differences Atheism Atheist Believer Agreement Skepticism Skeptical Funny Atheist

Author:Michael Shermer

“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.”

Men Years Has Beens Earth Religion Three Causes Blood Thousand Formulas Shed Thousand Years

Author:Felix Adler

“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.”

“I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.”

Thinking Years Believe Religion Universe Heaven Car Fool Evolution Daughter Died Accidents Our Daughter Your Daughter Car Accident

Author:Sam Harris

“Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.”

Years Religion Sun Four Mankind Temples Thank God Brethren

Author:Voltaire

“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”

Source: The American Spirit

“What year did Jesus think it was?”

Thinking Years Humor Funny Religion Jesus Genuine

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.”

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