Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat - Sir Julian Huxley
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies - Voltaire (on his deathbed, in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan)
Not only does science know why the tsunami happened, it can give precious hours of warning. If a small fraction of the tax breaks handed out to churches, mosques and synagogues had been diverted into an early warning system, tens of thousands of people, now dead, would have been moved to safety. Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering - Richard Dawkins
My own mind is my own church - Tom Paine
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good - Thomas Paine
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.- Thomas Jefferson
Let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by. The pavements are empty: the gutters run red -- while the fool toasts his god in the sky - from Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/Albums/ThickAsABrick-lyrics.html
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President, Democrat
In my bags are a tiny sandalwood Ganesha, pages of the New Testament and a string of Islamic prayer beads. In Iraq, you want to have God--anybody's God--within easy reach - Aparisim Ghosh, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223363,00.html
In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty - David Hume