On Religion…again…

Richard Dawkins

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, blood thirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticide, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

Steven Weinberg
Nobel Prize winning Physicist

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion."

Sean O’Casey

"Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands."

Thomas Jefferson

"The priests of the different religious sects…dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live."

Mark Kohn

"To an evolutionary psychologist, the universal extravagance of religious rituals, with their cost in time, resources, pain and privation, should suggest as vividly as a mandrill’s bottom that religion may be adaptive."

George Carlin

"Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man — living in the sky — who watches everything you do, every minute of everyday. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever until the end of time…But he loves you!"

Victor Hugo

"There is in every village a torch ~ the teacher: and an extinguisher ~ the clergyman."