What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.
We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."