Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. -- C.S. Lewis

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. -- Mark Twain

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -- Anne Lamott

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world. - Richard Le Gallienne

Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, -intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him. --Hannah Whitall Smith

Men rarely (if ever) invent gods superior to themselves. Most gods have the morals and manners of a spoiled child. -- Robert Heinlein

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

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -- Unknown

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love. -- H. L. Mencken

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. -- George F. Pentecost

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. -- Magellan

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. -- Jonathan Swift

Some of those people are right, some are deceived, and some are...well....