One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel, New York Journal-American, April 5, 1963. Don Hirschberg Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god.