" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. " | " Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires ...by teaching him to trust in God's help it took away his trust in his own powers. " | " Irrational thinking of any kind is very dangerous, ...I wish that with the progress of science we could inject a little bit more rationality in the world. But in that sense we have failed. " |
" You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe. " | " We mechanically follow somebody who would assure us a comfortable spiritual life ...although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship we inwardly accept the authority and tyranny of another that twists our minds and our way of life. " | " Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. " |
