Gregory House
Hospital soap opera character and religion crusher
And another one just for good measure...
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Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
US author, essayist, environmentalist
"From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm"
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George H. W. Bush (1924-)
41st US President (1989-93)
"I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic.
This is one nation under God."
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
British science fiction writer and inventor
"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now."
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Austrian neurologist
"The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognises it as such."
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John Burroughs (1837-1921)
US naturalist and essayist
"Science has done more for the development of Western civilisation in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred."
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
US author and humorist
"Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those that I do understand."
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W.K. Clifford (1845-1879)
English mathematician and philosopher
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish Playwright and social commentator
"Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope?
If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't."
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Frieda Norris (???)
Attributed - details unknown
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes."
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian & social critic
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence."
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Naponeon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
French general and emperor
"How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is sick from overeating, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares, 'This is God's will.'... Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
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Soviet-Russian cosmonaut - first atheist (and human) in space (1961)
"I don't see any god up here."
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