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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 
  
 "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)