How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.