"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there
      be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than
      that of blindfold fear." -- Thomas Jefferson

    "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
     education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.  Man
     would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear and
     punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein

    "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian,
     or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up
     to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
     -- Thomas Paine

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel
and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more
than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called 
it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness 
that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."  -- Thomas Paine

"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."
 -- "Aqualung", Jethro Tull

 "Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus
    A man of love, a man of strength
    But what a man was two thousand years ago
    Means nothing at all to me today." -- "Operation Spirit", Live

"The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind 
is its massive proof that God is a bore"-H.L. Mencken

"The last Christian died on the cross"-Friedrich Nietzsche

"If Christ were alive today there is one thing he would not be-a Christian"
	-Mark Twain

"If God did not exist it would have been necessary to invent him"-Voltaire

"Christ-an anarchist who succeeded, that's all"-Andre Malraux

A Christian is a man who feels
  Repentant on a Sunday
For what he did on Saturday
  And will do again on Monday.

"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to
create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness,
friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh	start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes
are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that
has no finish line."
	               Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.