Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. – Cardinal De Retz

I dislike blasphemy on purely rational grounds. If there is no God, blasphemy is stupid and unnecessary; if there is, then it’s damned dangerous. – Flan O’Brien

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian. – Mark Twain

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modelled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.- Albert Einstein

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. – Oscar Wilde

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. – Benjamin Franklin

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. – George Burns

The biblical account of Noah’s Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? – Judith Hayes