"…the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." —Umberto Eco
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” —H.L. Mencken
“We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.” —Jonathan Swift
“Almost everyone who has read history … knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.” —Stewart H. Holbrook
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.” —Richard Francis Burton, explorer
“There is no heresy or philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.” —James Joyce
“To practice a religion can be beautiful, to believe in one can be dangerous.” —Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
"What makes you so damn sure God believes in us?" —Rev. Gianni D'Oro, Conversations with the Lunatics
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