Quacks

Below are quotations from people who have pronounced utter nonsense from the pulpit and podium, in places of worship and in the halls of legislatures. Much of the mindless ranting from the religious right will be found here, principally in the form of twisted Scripture. For blatant ignorance from the mouths of the politically powerful and hopelessly dense, visit Punks. For the folly and ignorant mouthings of people in high places, visit Fools.

The "Wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor that has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
—William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 72

All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered.
—I Timothy 6:1 SOURCE

Every Christian knows that Jesus the son of God and man died and rose again on Easter Sunday. No alleged DNA test or Hollywood film is going to change that.
—Joseph Zwilling, New York Archdiocese spokesman 48

...the laws of evolution do not produce kinds of men but grades of men; and human evolution is intellectual, not physical.
—John Wesley Powell, Director, Bureau of American Ethnology

The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three gods but one God.
—Athanasian Creed SOURCE

The next insanity to come in the homosexual assault on the American Family will be PHM: Polygamous Homosexual Marriage.
—Jack Wheeler SOURCE

The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.
—Leviticus 11:6

Last of all, in this great struggle, we defend the cause of God and Religion. The Abolition spirit is undeniably atheistic.
—Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer CITATION

It's never been proven that air toxins are hazardous to people.
—Tom DeLay 47

Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are Good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
—1 Peter 2: 18-20

I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel—because God said so. Look it up in the Book of Genesis. This is not a political battle at all. It is a contest over whether the word of God is true.
—Senator James Inhof

The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.
—Paul, Corinthians 3:20

In the end all your knees will bend to Jesus Christ whether you want to or not.
—Kevin Tebedo

The State cannot be neutral towards the Christian faith. Any obstacle that would jeopardize the preaching of the Word of God…must be opposed by civil government.
—Gary DeMar CITATION

We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.
—James Watt

God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil.
—Fr. Daniel, after crucifying and asphyxiating Maricica Irina Cornici

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the ‘remaking’ of the Reich as they call it.
—Adolf Hitler 44

All governments are theocracies. We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.
—Roy Moore CITATION

If your eyes are set wide apart you should be a vegetarian, because you inherit the digestive characteristics of bovine or equine ancestry.
—Dr. Linard Williams
Medical Officer to the Insurance Institute of London, 1932"

Be fruitful and multiply.
—John Paul II, in address to Kenyans in Nairobi, one of the world's fastest-growing populations SOURCE

The mental differences of races and nations are real and profound.
—Daniel G. Brinton 61

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
—Paul, I Timothy 2:11-12

We must use the doctrine of religious liberty…until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.
—Gary North CITATION

A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
—The Baptist Faith and Message, Article 18

If the American people learn that the holocaust is primarily an historical hoax and/or the greatest holocaust was not against Jews, but perpetrated on Christians by Jews...
—David Duke

Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau.
—Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

He has transformed it into another instrument in the Jewish campaign to multiculturalize America. He has made it into a spiritually destructive propaganda instrument aimed at our children.
—William Pierce, on Michael Eisner and the Disney company SOURCE

We are guilty of believing that Jesus Christ chose only those of His own race to be his 12 disciples, and that he did not go out and choose two Chinese, two blacks, two Indians, two Arabs, two women or two homosexuals, therefore he would be called a Supremacist, Racist and Bigot by today's worldly standards.
—Pastor Dave Barley SOURCE

The tones of consecrated metal repel the demon and avert storm and lightning.
—Thomas Aquinas 45

If the mischievous abolitionists had only followed the Bible instead of the godless Declaration, they would have been bound to acknowledge that human bondage was divinely ordained.
—William Sierichs, Jr. CITATION

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters.
—Paul, Ephesians 6:5

Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles; the earth has no limbs and muscles, hence it does not move. 
—Scipio Chiaramonti
Prof. of Philosophy and Mathematics, University of Pisa, 1633

I believe our slaves are the happiest three millions of human beings on whom the sun shines. Into their Eden is coming Satan in the disguise of an abolitionist.
—James Henry Hammond CITATION

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which these [public] policies must conform.
—Fr. Frank Provone, Republican National Convention, 2000 CITATION

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
—Paul, I Corinthians 14:33-35

To keep people from inventing things.
—Procurator of the Holy Synod, Russia, on government's role in education

Russia is doomed as a culture due to its inheritance of Mongol concepts of justice and equality.
—Jack Wheeler SOURCE

Today, science has proved that materialist conceptions as well as the theory of evolution are false, that they are not based on any scientific evidence whatsoever, and that they continue to be refuted by scientific findings.
—Harun Yahya SOURCE

We should always be prepared never to err, to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.
—Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 1548

I have ever believed and do know, that there are witches...
—Sir Thomas Browne

Erection is chiefly caused by scuraum, eringoes, cresses, crymon, parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to powder and drank in muscadel, scallion, sea shell fish, etc.
—Aristotle "The Masterpiece"

A woman's submission to her husband liberates her from a multitude of frustrating problems, and her submission to God's order frees her from guilt. Submission is a blessing, not a curse!
—Biblical Viewpoints Publications SOURCE

Freedom is not America's gift to the world. It is the Almighty God's gift.
—George W. Bush

Negroes who have ascended to roles in government have a lot of white blood in them.
—Bob Jones III

No one was present when life first appeared on Earth. Therefore, any statement about life's origins should be considered theory.
—Disclaimer in all Oklahoma public school biology textbooks

Christians who carefully study the Bible are best qualified to teach the world how it should be governed.
—Rev. Bob Enyart CITATION

Stigma is necessary for an orderly society.
—Digby Anderson

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.
—John McCain 62

I will challenge the national focus on condom use to prevent the spread of HIV.
—Tom Coburn CITATION 

Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect.
—Titus 2:9

...subordination rules supreme in heaven and must rule supreme on earth.
—Bishop Stephen Elliott CITATION

Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
—Paul, Timothy 2:11

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis. 
—William Jennings Bryan

If you support the Democratic position of abortion then you have no business receiving Holy Communion since you placed yourself directly in opposition to this essential teaching of the Faith.
—Rev. Thomas Vander Woude, Arlington, Virginia CITATION

If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since nothing violent is eternal. It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.
—Thomas Aquinas, 1270

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