“Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.”

“It’s clear that this resistance stems largely from religion. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.”

“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”

“In Islam, there is no difference between the state and the religion. The religion is the state, the state is the religion.”

“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."”

“Different religions are based upon different opinions of the founders of those religions.”

“The reason for the existence of a religion, from one point of view at least, is to be found precisely in those things wherein it differs from other religions.”

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

“All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.”

“Well, I believe in what might be called spiritualism, be it a Hindu, be it a Muslim, be it a Christian. It makes no difference what religion it is because all religions have only one objective. So, no question, of preferring one religion or the other. *All religions take one to the same God.”