When you tell me that your Diety made you in his own image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it. Elbert Hubbard History does not record anywhere at any time a religion which has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert Heinlein How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed. Even a warm church can't compete successfully with a cold barroom. It serves for the subjugation of the working people and building up the power of the exploiting bourgeois classes. A christian is a man who feels repentence on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. I somtimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.