I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ’s Christianity.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. 13 January 1997.