'When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unblessed Mohammedan examines the Westminster Catechism, he knows that beyond any question I am spiritually insane. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic - for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it. He cannot prove to me that I am insane, for my mind has the same defect that afflicts his... When I look around me, I am often troubled to see how many people are mad.'

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. (This has also been attributed to Winston Churchill.)

Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

Does belief depend upon evidence? I think it does somewhat in some cases. How is it when a jury is sworn to try a case, hearing all the evidence, hearing both …