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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

—Mark Twain
The simple fact is that the New Testament, as we know it, is a helter-skelter accumulation of more or less discordant documents, some of them probably of respectable origin but others palpably apocryphal, and that most of them, the good along with the bad, show unmistakable signs of having been tampered with.

—H. L. Mencken
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that _we_ are the ones that need help?

—Dan Barker
The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cuts you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

—Dan Barker
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

—Proverbs 3:5-6
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love," they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context!

—Dan Barker
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open."

—Nicolaus Copernicus
I would imagine Jesus was a kind of Jewish reformer. If you were looking for an equivalent to the figure you dimly perceive through the gospels it would probably be a Richard Dawkins.

—A. C. Grayling
Facts speak louder than statistics.

—Geoffrey Streatfield
Do not judge lest you be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

—The Bible
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

—Thomas Huxley
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”

—Rain Bojangles
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

—The Bible
Now listen to what the Lord Almighty says. He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt. Go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Don't leave a thing; kill all the men, women, children and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.

—The Bible, 1 Samuel 15:1-3
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

—Leslie Stephen
It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a FACT, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution.

—R. C. Lewontin
Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

—Jerry Falwell
We often choose to refuse the facts which proofs the wrongs in our beliefs.

—Anne Frank (1934)
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

—Aldous Huxley (1944)

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