Education

• University of Illinois at Springfield
• Western Illinois University
• Lexington High School

Favorite saying

• "“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.” ~Georgia Harkness~ “God has no religion” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example” ~Mark Twain~ “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.” ~Dave Barry~ “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” ~Seneca~ “Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it” ~Benjamin Franklin~ “When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.” ~Bishop Desmond Tutu~ “Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich” ~Napoleon Bonaparte~ “Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism” ~John Haynes Holmes~ “A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte~ “All Bibles are man-made” ~Thomas Alva Edison~ “We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell” ~Karl Popper~ “I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.” ~Carl Sandburg~ “Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer~ “Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies” ~Thomas Jefferson~ “My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature” ~Albert Einstein~ “A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.” ~Dr. Carl Sagan~ “If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism” ~Thomas Jefferson~"