Quotes with bible-bashers

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  • Heinrich Heine The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Billy Graham The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Richard Dawkins The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Francis Lockier The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
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  • Bryce Courtenay The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Noam Chomsky The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Burgess Owens There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ray Charles There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.
    Ray Charles
    American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Queen Elizabeth II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Charles Kingsley We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Bonnie Tyler We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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