#44127: — 10/16  at  11:49 AM
I just came across a wonderful quote from H. L. Mencken:

The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us.

Man, we could use Henry these days.

-jcr

#44130: ae — 10/16  at  12:54 PM
jcr, I am soooo snagging that. Thanks!! You, too, PZ. Thanks for this entire site. I feel a little less insane knowing it's here.

#44132: — 10/16  at  01:40 PM

Man, we could use Henry these days.

Ramen, brother!

I also quite like this one:

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

#44133: Ronald Brak — 10/16  at  01:52 PM
I wrote a blog post on how church noticeboards could be used to pinpoint Jesus' location in deep space, but I thought it was too silly for the Carnival of the Godless. But now that I think about the crazy stuff religious people come up with... Well, does anyone here feel like eating a genuine piece of human meat that just happens to look and taste like a piece of ice cream cone?

#44136: Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling — 10/16  at  03:40 PM
Check out the evolution cartoon on this site http://www.truthforyouth.com/standard/main.htm

This is blatant religeous propaganda, and as such its far from truthful. It's aimed at kids too.

#44190: Nullifidian — 10/17  at  11:41 AM
That cartoon already has been ably fisked by PZ here.