Die Irreligiösen sind religiöser als sie selbst wissen, und die Religi — Irreligiousness

"As everybodys god, what will you do?" the doctor demanded. "You mean immediately?" asked the small god. "I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that will inevitably be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay … "… Also, I will be capricious. Ill reward and punish arbitrarily. Ill peek through bedroom windows and admonish what I see there, sometimes one thing, sometimes the opposite. I will have purposes men know nothing of, and when men begin to catch on to them, I will change them. This will convince some of your people that I am unreliable. "… Occasionally, I will do a conspicuous miracle to save one dying child while a thousand children starve elsewhere. This will convince sensible people I am perverse, and they will curse my name… "… I will be a sham, but not a snob. I will let every man, woman, or child, no matter how greedy or wicked, claim to have a personal relationship with me. In other words, I will be as arbitrary, inconsistent, ignorant, pushy, and common as humans are, and what more have they ever wanted in a god?"

"Christians are generally creepy people as a direct result of the dysfunctional dynamic of worshipping a dead naked hippie."

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics."

"Weyoun: Pagh wraiths, prophets — all this talk of gods strikes me as nothing more than superstitious nonsense. Damar: You believe the Founders are gods, dont you? Weyoun: Thats different. Damar: In what way? Weyoun: The Founders are gods."

"The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains."

"Do you know what the definition of a terrorist is? Some definitions say terrorists use violence, but it can also be the threatened use of violence for the purpose of creating fear in order to achieve a religious goal. This is exactly what [evangelists do], they put the fear of God and Hell into nonbelievers. What could be more terroristic than Believe this or burn for an eternity, the answer is nothing."