AtheistExile's Hall of Idiots

Idiots, morons, hatemongers, deluded, sinister, cynical -- whatever you want to call these famous believers -- here are the quotes that reveal their true nature. They indict themselves and their "faith" by their own words.

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"I had a student ask me, 'Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?' Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed." ~Jerry Falwell

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." ~Jerry Falwell

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country." ~Jerry Falwell

"Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions." ~Jerry Falwell

"The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc." ~Jerry Falwell

"I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status." ~Jerry Falwell

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's charioteers." ~Jerry Falwell

"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them." ~Jerry Falwell

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."  ~ Ann Coulter

"Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims."  ~ Ann Coulter

"Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'"  ~ Ann Coulter

"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew."  ~ Bailey Smith

"Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office."  ~ Beverly LaHaye

"Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'"  ~ Bob Dornan

"There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America."  ~ David Barton

"Sodomy is a graver sin than murder. – Unless there is life there can be no murder."  ~ David Trosch

"Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!"  ~ Fob James

"A good butt-whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy."  ~ Fob James

"If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it."  ~ Fred Phelps

"Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!"  ~ Fred Phelps

"You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!"  ~ Fred Phelps

"American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!"  ~ Fred Phelps

"Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death."  ~ Fred Phelps

"We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."  ~ Gary Bauer

"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship."  ~ Gary North

"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."  ~ Gary North

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."  ~ George W. Bush

"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."  ~ George W. Bush

"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."  ~ George W. Bush

"When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data."  ~ Henry Morris

"We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created.... I praise God all the time for AIDS."  ~ J. B. Stoner

"AIDS is a racial disease of Jews and Niggers, and fortunately it is wiping out the queers. I guess God hates queers for several reasons. There is one big reason to be against queers and that is because every time some white boy is seduced by a queer into becoming a queer, means his white bloodline has run out."  ~ J. B. Stoner

"Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world."  ~ James Dobson

"State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse."  ~ James Dobson

"Today's children... They're damned. They're gone."  ~ James Dobson

"The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."  ~ James Kennedy

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

"We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."  ~ Jay Grimstead

"The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."  ~ Jesse Helms

"All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction."  ~ Jesse Helms

"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."  ~ Jesse Helms

"Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches."  ~ Jesse Helms

"The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Also, will they believe what the Media says, considering that its aim is to steal, kill, and destroy?"  ~ Jimmy Swaggart

"Civilized people – Muslims, Christians, and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator."  ~ John Ashcroft

"The Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."  ~ John Whitehead

"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and Christianity."  ~ Joseph McCarthy

"I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."  ~ Joseph Scheidler

"I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."  ~ Kay O'Connor

"We need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture."  ~ Keith A. Fournier

"I want to coin a phrase here, and I don't mind help. What would be the communication version of "ethnic cleansing?" Because that's what in particular the homosexual activists try to do."  ~ Laura Schlessinger

"Better a pink bottom than a black soul."  ~ Lester Roloff

“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”  ~ Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin

"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."  ~ Pat Buchanan

"It is deeply troubling to have an appointed, unelected commission remove an elected official from office [Roy Moore]. The Court of Judiciary has overturned an election and crushed the democratic process through their actions."  ~ Patrick Mahoney

"I think that actually AIDS is a guardian. That is I think it was sent, if you would, about forty years ago, to destroy Western civilization unless we change our sexual ways. So it's really a Godsend."  ~ Paul Cameron

"Homosexuality is a crime against humanity."  ~ Paul Cameron

"Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals."  ~ Paul Cameron

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."  ~ Randall Terry

"Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies."  ~ Randall Terry

"I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like – and if you have babies, you have babies."  ~ Randall Terry

"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."  ~ Randall Terry

"They would have us believe that Islam is just as good as Christianity. Christianity was founded by the virgin-born son of God, Jesus Christ. Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, the last one of which was a nine-year-old girl."  ~ Jerry Vines

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [Gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything!"  ~ Rick Santorum

"As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families."  ~ Robert Simonds

"Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable."  ~ Robert Simonds

"We'll take away their power and their money. Money comes from students. We'll break their backs by taking 24 million kids out of the public schools."  ~ Robert Simonds

"Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse."  ~ Robert T. Lee

"You do not have the right to be wrong, regardless of what any man-made or demonic charter says."  ~ Robert T. Lee

"Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God."  ~ Robert T. Lee

"Do you realize that the only thing that gives democracy existence is sin? The absence of democracy is perfect obedience to god."  ~ Robert T. Lee

"The best way to insure the earth is never over populated is for sensible and righteous governments to clear all forms of atheism and heresy."  ~ Robert T. Lee

"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."  ~ Ronald Reagan

"If they want to get the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first."  ~ Roy Moore

"Worship With Your Vote"  ~ Roy Moore

"Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."  ~ Star Parker

"The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women."  ~ Tony Evans

"The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned."  ~ William Rehnquist

"Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."  ~ Michael Savage

"We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself."  ~ Jerry Falwell

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."  ~ Jerry Falwell

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."  ~ Jerry Falwell

"The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers?"  ~ Pat Robertson

"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period."  ~ Pat Robertson

"Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason." ~Martin Luther

"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them." Pat Robertson

"We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
~Archibald MacLeish

Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."  ~Pat Buchanan

"It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married)."  ~Phyllis Schlafly

"When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell "Stop!" to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind. Then recite a portion of the Bible or sing a hymn."  ~Mormon Guide to Self-Control

"I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss."  ~Pat Robertson

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."  ~George Herbert Walker Bush

"The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has told us, very plainly, in the Holy Scriptures that it is several thousand years in age, and no more, that ought to settle all basic questions of terrestrial chronology."  ~Henry Morris, President of Institute for Creation Research

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -  ~ Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, blasphemy trial of Galileo Galilei

"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example."  ~R. Furman, Baptist

"The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith."  ~from Cardinal Bellarmine in 1615 blasphemy trial of Galileo Galilei

“God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that Hitler was sent to us by God to save Germany."  ~Hermann Goering

"AIDS is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct"  ~Mother Teresa

"Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.  Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."  ~Jimmy Swaggart

Planned Parenthood is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism -- everything that the Bible condemns.  ~ Pat Robertson

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.  ~ Pat Robertson

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.  ~ Pat Robertson

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.  ~Pat Buchanan

"When you know the LORD you have no need for masturbation."  ~Brice Wellington

"Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."  ~Rev. Joseph Morecraft

"When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."  ~Gary Potter, president of Catholics for Christian Political Action

"Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals ~ the two things seem to go together"  ~Pat Robertson

There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communist, atheists, New age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers and homosexuals are on top."  ~Pat Robertson

"Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest."  ~Jimmy Swaggart