"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
Mark Twain
"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science."
Richard Dawkins
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
Bertrand Russell
"Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here)."
Richard Dawkins
"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."