If there was ever a Queen of our hive mind*, it’s Wikipedia. <\/p>\n

Feeling a bit robotic today, I thought I’d see what the religion quotes page<\/a> threw up. <\/p>\n

This is partly because looking at creationist blogs stops being funny very quickly and achieves the seemingly impossible feat of being both terrifying and boring at the same time.<\/p>\n

This Wikiquote page has lots of quotes, split into alphabetical groups, on some principle that already passes all understanding. (D’oh, actually, no it doesn’t. The order is based on the first letters of each quote.)<\/p>\n

Some of these are just great. Lots are (deliberately) funny <\/p>\n

Much as I want to paste loads of the anti-religious quotes here, or even steal them for a byline for this blog, I’m just mentioning the link so you can pick your own.<\/p>\n

Oh well, OK, then, since you twisted my arm, just one<\/del> two.<\/p>\n

Any religion that teaches there is only heaven or hell is gonna be a haven for manic-depressives.~ E.T.B. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. ~ Spider Robinson <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The actual Wiki religion page is just, how shall I put this…. dull<\/a>.. Too dull to even stir up a rant about anything (unusually) but a least it’s not terrifying. <\/p>\n

(I would say that it would be good if you had to write a school essay but, for some wierd reasons, students get penalised for using the greatest knowledge resource on the planet, although they are supposed to be doing a good job if they quote any old Harvard referenced tosh. )<\/p>\n

* The blogosphere – I can’t come up with a less repellent word – is obviously the Collective, assimilating more and more odd folk every day. Resistance is blatantly futile.
\nImmature and specialised Wikis – like the Wikiquote, which was new to me – are being spawned all the time but the Queen remains pre-eminent. <\/p>\n

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