"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it."
- John Adams

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-Blaise Pascal

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, Minority Report (1956