While a ministerial student at old Howard College, I heard a piece of wisdom that has stuck with me: Be wary of preachers whose sermons never stray far from the sins of adultery and fornication. They have illicit sex on the brain.
--History Prof. Wayne Flynt
Auburn University
"Are you voting with me, Jesus?"
Birmingham News
(Feb. 13, 2000)
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences.
--Wallace Stevens
"Two or Three Ideas," 1951
Charles Norman's Poets on Poetry
(Free Press, 1962)
(Submitted by Dudley Duncan)
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Our conviction about what is natural or right should not inhibit the role of science in discovering the truth--rather it should inform our judgment about the implications and consequences of the truth science uncovers.
--Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
European Bioscience Conference
(Associated Press, Nov. 18, 2000)
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The laws about why discrimination [against gays and lesbians], even revulsion and hatred, are justified have begun to fall away. What remains is largely inchoate, or biblical.
--Columnist Anna Quindlen
(Sept. 10, 2000)
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Those who had faith in their hearts and waited for Divine intervention perished in the Diaspora.
As religion is separated from the state, so should Divinity be separated from the vigorous, often brutal and--by money--corrupted political discourse.
--Rabbi Marc Liebhaber
American Jewish World
(September 22, 2000)
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. . . people of biblical times created a beastly, bloody-minded god . . . More people have been tortured and killed in God's name . . . but the Bible won't be slapped with a warning label or placed on a restricted list.
--Jo Ann Wypijewski
"Blaming the Messenger"
Ms. Magazine
(Dec/Jan 2001)
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To all those people upset about the teaching of evolution in the schools, I'd say to them, "Don't worry. The kids aren't learning it."
--Researcher Jo Ellen Roseman
Project 2061
(Popular Science, October 2000)
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God chose a holy and special people to be above all the races of the earth. . . . The real evil in the world today is the false god of integration promoted by a godless United Nations and the New World Order.
--Florida Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People Website
(Charleston Gazette, Aug. 26, 2000)
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If the price I have to pay as a Jew for the pride I'm supposed to experience over a fellow Semite on a major party ticket, is listening to Joe Lieberman's exhortations about how important it is to share his superstitious beliefs in an Almighty God, than I'd rather forego that pride.
It's the kind of expression which my people generally associate with Fundamentalist Goyim. And just as their demands about accepting Jesus sends chills up the spines of believing Jews, Lieberman's insistences about the necessity of accepting a non-Trinitarian deity, creates the same reaction in those of us--Jew and nonJew alike--who find such demands an affront to our intellect.
--Columnist David Berkman
Shepherd Express [Milwaukee]
(October 2000)
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To even suggest that one cannot be a moral person without being a religious person is an affront to many highly ethical citizens. . . . [N]one of our citizens, including atheistic Americans, should be made to feel outside of the electoral or political process.
--Abraham Foxman
National Director
Anti-Defamation League
Letter to Lieberman (August 28, 2000)
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When I was seven years old, I sat in the living room of my parents' house and watched my little brother die. Jimmy died of heart failure, caused by a high temperature brought on by scarlet fever. Not many kids in America died of scarlet fever in the second half of the twentieth century. But in Christian Science families, kids die of everything from untreated infections and broken bones to measles, malaria, and scarlet fever. I didn't visit a doctor, get inoculations, take any medications, or receive any kind of medical treatment until I was in my early twenties. In my childhood I had everything from the chicken pox to the flu, to near-death fevers, infections due to rusty nails, and that particular spring scarlet fever.
--Rob Nelson
Last Call: 10 Commonsense Solutions to America's Biggest Problems
(CHILD newsletter, No. 2, 2000)
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In putting a monument to the Ten Commandments on the Capitol lawn, the legislators are worshiping the golden calf of popular opinion. They are putting this pandering above all else, and they are bearing false witness about the nature of their opponents.
--David Wells
Weekend Memos
Cincinnati Inquirer
(July 14, 2000)
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