"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.