"Black holes are where God divided by zero." Steven Wright "One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel."  -Jewish Folk Saying "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand." -Frederick the Great "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 "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." -Thomas Jefferson "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another."  -Jonathan Swift "We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened." -Mark Twain "The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?" -Psalm 27 "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." -Doug McLeod "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet" "Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife." -Kahlil Gibran, "Beauty" "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." -Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." -Voltaire "The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh "We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -H. L. Mencken

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