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It's not that the church has the idea that they're gonna train us up in order to go out and baptize those extraterrestrials, before the Mormons get at 'em. The reason is simply historical facts. John Paul II, for instance, said that evolution, in the Neo-Darwinian sense, is no longer a mere hypothesis. I mean, he said that, it's in writing.
Father George Coyne, PhD Other
How we define what is crazy or not crazy about religions is ultimately up to how we define "crazy". If you define mental illness as anyone who hears a voice talking to them, then anyone who has heard the voice of God is crazy.
Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD Other
The Scriptures are not teaching science. It's very hard for me to accept, not just a literal interpretation of Scripture, but a fundamentalist approach to religious belief. It's kind of a plague. It presents itself as science and it's not.
Father George Coyne, PhD Other
I want to be in the green, Lord!
Televangelist Dialogue
Bill Maher: You are one of the very few people who are actually running this country. It worries me that people are running my country who think-, who believe in a talking snake. Sen. Mark Pryor: You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though. [chuckles]
Dialogue
Bill Maher: Why do you think it is that so few people do what you have done and leave the [Mormon] church? Tal Bachman, Ex-Mormon: The moment you acknowledge to yourself that Joseph Smith did not tell the truth about his experiences and his achievements, you just committed social suicide. Bill Gardiner, Ex-Mormon: Family and friends.
Dialogue
Geert Wilders, Dutch Parliament Member: Islam is, according to me, a violent religion. The Qu'ran is a violent book and Muhammad was a violent prophet. Bill Maher: Do you think Islam wants to take over the world? Geert Wilders: They don't even make a secret about it. We are infidels. We should either become Islamic or we should be killed. That is what they say. That is what they are proud of.
Dialogue
Bill Maher: The Bible is not against homosexuality? Franciscan friar: If you are born homosexual you ought to stay there, you have to, to be happy. Bill Maher: But that's what the Bible says? Franciscan friar: What the Bible means to say, yeah.