I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.