"Man is a religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the TRUE religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself - and cuts his throat is his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven." Mark Twain

"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in SPITE of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo, down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve." Mark Twain