" Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. " | " I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. " | " What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. " |
" It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. " | " We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. " | " I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. " |