Douglas Adams

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."

H. L. Mencken

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."

Helen Keller

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."

Helen Keller

"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."

Bill Maher

"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."

Bill Gates

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."

Albert Einstein

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

George Bernard Shaw

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."

Robert A. Heinlein

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

Thomas Jefferson

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."

Paul Tournier

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

Edmund Burke

"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."

Frederick the Great

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface."

Marianne Williamson

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."

Stephen King

"The Bible is literature, not dogma."

George Santayana

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."

Bill Maher

"The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"

Judith Hayes

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Richard Burton

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."

Robert A. Heinlein