Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to surpass even him.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!