A few quotes...

"The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!"

-Frederick Douglas

"I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

-Gallileo

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issueOne man's religion is another man's belly laugh. but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

-Mark Twain

"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

-Robert Heinlein

"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."

-Robert Green Ingersoll

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

-Thomas Jefferson

Gorrillas

This does not have anything to do with religion, but interesting nonetheless...

Researchers have discovered an estimated 125,000 lowland gorillas living in a swamp in equatorial Africa. That is double the number of the endangered species thought to survive worldwide. The swamp is about eighty miles from the nearest road.

I'm all for more monkeys.