"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do." Joss Whedon.
"By far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth." Richard Dawkins.
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." Richard Dawkins.
"(Religion) With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion" Steven Weinberg.
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." Richard Jeni.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Delos B. McKown.
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Mark Twain.
"If God is indeed omnipotent, why could He have not produced the glorious result without such a long and tedious prologue?" Bertrand Russell.
"Religion... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. ...what it means is 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!' If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it, but on the other hand if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say, 'Fine, I respect that'.
In the case of an idea, if we think 'Here is an idea that is protected by holiness or sanctity', what does it mean? Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows, but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe, no, that's holy? ...Everybody gets absolutely frantic about it because you're not allowed to say these things. Yet when you look at it rationally there is no reason why those ideas shouldn't be as open to debate as any other, except that we have agreed somehow between us that they shouldn't be." Douglas Adams.
