Men rarely (if ever) dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity."
-- Thomas Paine

"Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion."
-- John Adams

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen."
-- Michel de Montaigne

"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."
-- Herb Caen, "The San Francisco Chronicle"

The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.
-- Jerry Falwell

"Christianity has nothing to do with Christ and probably never has, unless Christ was a close-minded, misogynistic, war-loving, imperialistic, aggressive hater of anything he didn't understand or agree with. "
-- seen on CathiefromCanada.com

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."
-- Robert A. Heinlein