There's a difference between standing up for what you believe in and making a fool of yourself.

"So a couple of washed-up Vegas magicians are now an authority?" -Unknown, in response to Penn and Teller.

"True science and religion are not in conflict." - Stephen Jay Gould.

"There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation." - Dennis Prager

"The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one's beliefs." - Alister McGrath

"The surest sign of prejudice is preceived threat of the out-group and exaggeration of their differences." - Handbook of Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology paraphrase