" Even the simplest things are hard to understand, ...and that makes me rather suspicious of anyone who claims to have a quick and easy answer to any aspect of reality ...Therefore I'm not someone who can accept any specific religious dogma. " | " When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. " | " All thinking men are atheists. " |
" I began to question whether god intended to cast three quarters of human kind into outer darkness because they had never heard of him ...so I lost my formal faith but in anthropology I found an authentic framework which explains much of what goes on in the world without having to introduce gods. " | " It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. " | " Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. " |