Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD: How we define what is crazy or not crazy about — Religulous

"Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. Its nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who dont have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think its wonderful when someone says, "Im willing, Lord! Ill do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you dont. How can I be so sure? Because I dont know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not."

"What happens in Gomorrah, stays in Gomorrah."

"Gay Muslim activists. That is a very rare job description. You guys have big ones."

"You know, Scientologists [sound of audience laughing]. And right, youre like, "Oh, yeah, thats some crazy shit. Okay." Jesus with the virgin birth and the dove and the snake who talked in the garden, thats cool. But the Scientologists, theyre the crazy ones."

"Theres more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because its a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say "under new management" than it is to change the whole building. I worked a lot of comedy clubs in the eighties that still had the disco ball on the ceiling. And in the nineties they became strip clubs. And now theyre a Starbucks."

"The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people, by irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didnt learn a lot about it."