"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man" Thomas Jefferson
"Lighthouses are more useful than churches" Benjamin Franklin
"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. ...this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it" John Adams .
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." Robert Pirsig
"The "psychotic" God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" Richard Dawkins