When did I realize I was God? Well I was praying, and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
-- Anon.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian -- like a doctor of divinity.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

�To him, it�s blindingly obvious: the great religions all began at a time when we knew a tiny fraction of what we know today about the origins of Earth and human life. It�s understandable that early humans would develop stories about gods or God to salve their ignorance. But people today have no such excuse. If they continue to believe in the unbelievable, or say they do, they are morons or lunatics or liars.�
-- The New York Times on Christopher Hitchens

Christianity - The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.
-- Anon., found on the web.

Fundamentalists of all religions keep announcing to the rest of us that they want to attain more and more earthly power--the Pope wants to re-Christianize Europe; Islamic clerics want to Islamicize Europe; American Evangelical missionaries were busy immediately after the the first phase of the Iraq war attempting to convert Muslims, Anglican prelates in Africa think they can get rid of more liberal American Episcopalians. None of these efforts demonstrates the "respect" toward others that all of these religions demand for themselves.
-- Jane Smiley

TRUST ME, I NEVER TOLD A SINGLE SOUL TO VOTE FOR BUSH
-- Jesus

"The only difference between religion and superstition is the spelling."
-- Anon.

"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own."
-- Frank Zappa

"People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution. They don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
-- Jamie Raskin