“Yep, you can't make a piece of sand from nothing. You don't know where we came from, why you are here, or what's going to happen after you die. You don't know much at all. So, if it's true that 'God likes 'em dumb and ignorant,' you sure qualify to be liked by Him.”

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

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New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949

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