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• The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics, culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation of events.
  Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined....
• How we apples swim! -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Brother Protesta
• RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
  "What is your religion my son?" inquired the Archbishop of Rheims....
• Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
  -- Dave Barry...
• A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770...
• HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an athei
  a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?...