If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

World War II proves there's no God.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Technology adds nothing to art.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.