___ Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

___ God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

___ I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. (Mahatma Gandhi)

___ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

___ A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that faith does not prove anything. ( Friedrich Nietzsche)

___ Religion is a defense against the experience of God. (Carl Jung)

___ Why do people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? (Anne Dillard)

___ Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. (Lenny Bruce)

___ In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. ( Mark Twain)

___ The problem with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. (Herb Caen)

__ The new fundamentalists are very, very dangerous. To quote a preacher, “I had a sneak look at the back of the book” I so I know that the good guys will win in the end. In the meantime, the bad guys are in control and religion has become an industry – something that has more in common with MacDonalds that it does with me. (Bono, U2)

___ Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about things. Small minds talk about people.

(From a netfriend)