Irena Sendler (1910–2008) Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm
Gross, Terry (2005) Fresh Air: "A White-Striped Trip: 'Get Behind Me Satan'" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4696110 NPR.org (accessed June 6, 2006)
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm
“After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.”
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
As quoted in The Atheist's Bible (2007) edited by Joan Konner, p. 62
Context: When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
“Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”
Cotton Mather book Magnalia Christi Americana
Magnalia Christi Americana http://books.google.com/books?id=49JdS7NoSawC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Magnalia+Christi+Americana#PPA63,M1 (The Ecclesiastical History of New England), s. 63 (1702). Mather, commenting on the spiritual condition of the colonies, cited an old saying in Latin: Religio peperit Divitias, et filia devoravit matrem.
Upton Sinclair book The Profits of Religion
Book One : The Church of the Conquerors, "The Great Fear"
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)
“Emancipation from the bondage of nature can only be brought about by the religion of Mitzvoth”
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) israeli intellectual
"Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State" (1995)