" I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " | " Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. " - Seneca | " Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality " |
" It is theism, theology, that has wrenched man out of his relationship with the world, isolated him, made him into an arrogant self-centered being who exalts himself above nature " | " Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. " | " All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. " |
