These people are not lightweights. The quotes in the anonymous section are unknown as to source, and are here because they fit well with the Aaronical Atheist approach. Religion is a way to explain randomness. I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Religion is all bunk.
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.