“I admire anyone who's genuinely trying to achieve spiritual enlightenment and live a peaceful life. But religious dogma is a barrier to that. The last thing a dogmatist wants is for anyone to be enlightened, any more than a pharmaceutical company wants anybody cured.”

—  Pat Condell

"Time Out London" (2006) https://web.archive.org/web/20141024084907/http://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/pat-condell-interview-1
2006

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