" That a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness. " | " Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. " | " Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. " |
" I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. " | " If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. " | " Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. " |