These are things people came up with once they got a dose of reality!
"For me, success is to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it."
Paul Harvey
"It’s not the parts of the bible I don’t understand that bother me; it’s the parts I do understand."
Mark Twain
"Until we learn to love one another more than we love god, the killing will continue."
Anon.
"All religions prey on the superstitions of people too poor and too uneducated to challenge them."
Anon.
"After 2000 years of what has been a pretty bloody marriage, faith and reason must agree to part"
Matthew Parris
"Secular ethics are based exclusively on human faculties such as logic, reason or moral intuition"
Michele Monni
"The Church, like tobacco creates a need for itself."
Anon.
"We can value things without God to tell us what is valuable. We know, without faith, that love is better than war." Mary Warnock
"Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for" H.L. Mencken
"What religion and the religious fear most of all is ridicule because what they believe is absurd"
Paul Owen
"I don't believe in god because I've thought about it."
Sean Lock
"Religious belief of just about any sort is intellectually lazy"
Andrew Potter