5. Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. Anonymous
4. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. Anonymous
3. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. Isaac Asimov
2. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Seneca the Younger (pictured)
1. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus