Attempts at reflected glory

"American Atheists will work with them to ensure truth is placed next to the lies, civility next to barbarism," he said.

Truth and civility really didn't need the company of a barbarous bench lying next to them.

Great minds think alike

"UNFORTUNATELY, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion."~G.K. Chesterton: "St. Thomas Aquinas."

"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves" - Blessed John Paul II