Sunday, October 7, 2012

It's Sunday

Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – HL Mencken

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. – Mark Twain

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