" Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. " | " If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. " | " Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. " |
" Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. " - Seneca | " When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. " | " When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. " |
