Rupert Brooke

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt …

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John T. Scopes

“Of course, it was impossible to teach biology without teaching evolution. But to the fundamentalists, evolution symbolized all that was repugnant. It was a threat to religious belief, they thought. …

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Lawrence Wright

“The very same qualities that make [religion] so powerful — because it can place a transformative lens over the ways we perceive reality and can make our lives more tolerable …

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Herman Melville

“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.” “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” …

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Paul D. Boyer

“My views have changed from a belief that my prayers were heard to clear atheism. … Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.” “None …

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