Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory. Madalyn Murray O'Hair More Quotes by Madalyn Murray O'Hair More Quotes From Madalyn Murray O'Hair Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them. Madalyn Murray O'Hair communityatheistmoving I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study. Madalyn Murray O'Hair intellectualcollegeorder The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. Madalyn Murray O'Hair retreatapathyatheist If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. I don't feel that I can sit in judgment on them, or that society can sit in judgment on them. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. Madalyn Murray O'Hair should-havewantlong Let nature decide. When a cow is biologically ready to have sex relations, she mates with the nearest well-hung bull. When a flower is ready to scatter its seed, it pollinates. It's the same way throughout nature - except with man, who tries to postpone consummation of his sex drive, unsuccessfully for the most part, for six or eight years after he reaches puberty. Madalyn Murray O'Hair flowermensex I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it. Madalyn Murray O'Hair point-of-viewviewsreason Let's face it: If a son of God was ever born, it was because of this wonderful sex act that Joseph and Mary enjoyed one night. Madalyn Murray O'Hair nightsexson Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might easily have been someone else. Madalyn Murray O'Hair sealatinteacher The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp. Madalyn Murray O'Hair atheismsafefeet I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a physical battle. I mean a man who would lay me, and when he was done, I'd say: "Oh, brother, I've been laid." Or if we had an argument, he would stand up and engage in intellectual combat and not go off and mope in the corner, or take reprisals, or go to drink. Madalyn Murray O'Hair brothermenmean Religion is induced insanity. Madalyn Murray O'Hair heresyanarchyinsanity Organizing atheists is like hurding cats Madalyn Murray O'Hair catatheistreligion At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it. Madalyn Murray O'Hair practiceinsanitypeople Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today. Madalyn Murray O'Hair feministmenbelieve But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion. Madalyn Murray O'Hair punishmentpsychicschildren Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is. Madalyn Murray O'Hair opiatesmassbaseball In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. Madalyn Murray O'Hair partnershipstateschurch I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. Madalyn Murray O'Hair atheismatheistwant As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time. Madalyn Murray O'Hair scarementhinking An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy. Madalyn Murray O'Hair atheistmenheaven
