I'd like to meet:
Music:
All Rock all the time
Television:
Firefly Veronica MarsBattle Star GalacticaBuffy Weeds
Heroes:
Thomas Jefferson.........."Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear................."I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.".................."Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies."............................James Madison.................................."In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."....................................."Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."...........................John Adams ........................"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." [ in a letter to Thomas Jefferson].............................."The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."........................."The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.".........................Abraham Lincoln........................"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma..................................Mark Twain.............................."Faith is believing something you know ain't true."............................"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."...................................."It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."..................................."Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."...........Thomas Edison................................"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."......................."I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States."........................"So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk."....................Sigmund Freud,............."It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."..................."In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable."........................"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.".........................Albert Einstein....................."Thus I came to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.".......................Carl Sagan........................."My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it," he said. "An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic."......................................When asked how he would explain a "genuine mystical experience," Sagan responded: "Your question presupposes the existence of a genuine mystical experience and I'm not sure what that is. People have vivid hallucinations. How do you distinguish between altered states of consciousness?".............."It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men."..........................."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."..........................."If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate."