Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.
Penn JilletteDon't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
Penn JilletteChanneling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
Penn JilletteOnce you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I''m going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.
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