Who Said That?

Who said that?

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."

Place your guess in the comments section below.  No google searches (or cheating).  The goal is to guess "who said this?"

Update on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 09:52AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As some of you guessed, these words come from Bertrand Russell, in his book, Why I Am Not A Christian.  I wonder if he'd want to rethink that now . . .

Comments

[Dorian Geldmeier]

Sam Harris?

[carolyn]

Horold Camping?

[Chris Coleman]

Tim Leedom, author of "The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read"?

It's interesting to me that athiests and agnostics make this claim against Christianity and Religion in general. Yet, if you take a quick survey of history many more people have died under the anti-religous idealogies of Communism (i.e. Stalin and Mao).

[Rick B.]

Barney Frank?

[R.K. Brumbelow]

You need to go back a bit further gentlemen. Its the son of Viscount Amberley.

[Cris]

Spong?

[Bobby Grow]

Jeremy Bentham

[HB]

My guess is Dawkins.

["lee n. field"]

Bertrand Russell?

[Jordan]

Dawkins

[SomeoneElse]

John Shelby Sponge

As for Dawkins, does he really exist?

[SomeoneElse]

I couldn't resist the urge to cheat, the answer as to who said it makes sense though

[timinator]

Horold Camping

[Tony]

Eric Clapton?

[bruce s.]

Elton John

[Richard Bush]

Christopher Hitchens

[Pat]

Bertrand Russell, and if not, he said something very simialr to it.

[NoBodyinParticular]

In infamous humanist - it could be most of the above or one of the above. In the end what does it matter who said it - postmodernism doesn't care.

[jordan]

charles ryrie?

[Chris Sherman]

Definitely a secular humanist- probably well educated. Doesn't sound like Carl Sagan. Doesn't sound like an American.



I can't think of anyone, but probably not the author of the bumper sticker I saw last weekend, "God save me from your followers."