" Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? " | " All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. " | " Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. " - Voltaire |
" For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. " | " One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. " | " Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it. " |