It's an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

The religion of one age is, as a rule, the literary entertainment of the next.

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

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

No man with any sense of humor ever founded a religion.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.