By freeing them from slavery to a book of fairy tales that was cobbled together by a bunch of mentally ill morons over a period of hundreds of years. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The Bible is a «symposium» of works by a number of persons, composed of many writings, written over a period of hundreds of years, some only preserved in fragments, by unknown authors, written on animal skins (for they had no paper as we know it), with no printing presses to preserve the writing... It's a marvel we have the Bible at all. (religion-online.org)
Over a period of hundreds of years the river first stopped flowing into the Indian Ocean and eventually dried up completely. (treehugger.com)