I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.
~ Dan Barker
PZ Myers, Amerikaanse bioloog, en professor aan de Universiteit van Minnesota Morris (UMM). Hij is de auteur van de science blog genaamd "Pharyngula". PZ is een bekend atheïst, criticus van intelligent design (ID) en het creationisme in het algemeen, en is een activist in de Amerikaanse creatie-evolutie controversie.