"No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God." -- President G. W. Bush
“We now have a vaccine for HPV that appears to be both safe and effective. The vaccine produced 100 % immunity in the six thousand women who received it as part of a clinical trial. And yet, Christian conservatives in our government have resisted a vaccination program on the grounds that HPV is a valuable impediment to premarital sex. These pious men and women want to preserve cervical cancer as an incentive toward abstinence, even if it sacrifices the lives of thousands of women each year.”
— Sam Harris
“The same Gallup poll revealed that 53% of Americans are creationists. This means that despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of life and the greater antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Those with the power to elect out presidents and congressmen- and many who themselves get elected- believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah’s ark, that light from distant galaxies was created en route to the earth, and that the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine breath, in a garden with a talking snake, by the hand of an invisible god.”
— Sam Harris
“Every single study that has ever looked at the issue has revealed massive amounts of bigotry and prejudice against atheists in America. The most recent data shows that atheists are more distrusted and despised than any other minority, including gays and Muslims, and that an atheist is the least likely person that Americans would vote for in a presidential election. Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry." --
Austin Cline
“So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
― Bertrand Russell
