Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."
-- Gene Roddenberry

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-- Voltaire

I don't see any God up here.
-- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, speaking from a spaceship, 1961

Our stupidity is immortal, nothing will change it. The same mistakes, the same prejudices, the same injustice, the same lusts wheel endlessly around the parade ground of the centuries. Immutable and ineluctable. I wish I could believe in a god of some kind but I simply cannot."
-- Richard Burton

"Who you jivin' with that cosmic debris?"
--Frank Zappa

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
-- Edward R. Murrow

"Bush speaks to the audience as if they're idiots. I think the reason he does that is because that's the way these issues were explained to him."
--Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, on Real Time With Bill Maher

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
--James Madison, American president and political theorist (1751-1836)

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-- Steven Weinberg

The divinely guided, who will kill you, or at least wish you dead, because you belong to a different book club � this is what religion is.
-- Ian Murphy

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