Lenny Bruce and two religions

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
-Lenny Bruce

Atheism

Carl Sagan

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
-Carl Sagan

Stephen Fry and Arthur Clark

"I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent."
-Arthur C. Clark

Jon Stewart and Franklin

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason"
-Benjamin Franklin

Calendar and Roddenberry

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
- Gene Roddenberry

John Adams and Santayana

"The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion."
-John Adams