Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the resident atheist of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. Tell no one was often his command.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.

Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.