I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.