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I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible…

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I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend…

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The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind…

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I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into…

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Let nature decide. When a cow is biologically ready to have sex relations, she mates with the nearest well-hung bull. When a…

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I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required for graduation. It was a good, sound, thorough, but completely biased evaluation of the Bible, and I was delighted with it, because it helped to document my doubts; it gave me a framework within which I could be…

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One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with…

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About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they…

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You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of…

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If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be…

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If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American…

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My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say…

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There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms…

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Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant.…

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Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my…

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Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right…

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Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might…

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“Oh, one of the things that I am most proud of is that people can say, "I am an atheist," in the United States…

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I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn't want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I'm an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on…

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My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of…

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I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a physical battle. I mean a man who would lay me, and when he was done, I'd say: "Oh, brother, I've been laid." Or if we had an argument, he would stand up and engage in intellectual combat and…

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