You understand, Pryn, I don’t believe in any of it: magic, miracles, religion, the calling of the gods, named or unnamed.

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

I dislike talk of the Gods, who taunt us with their promises, and whose disappointments we must always accept.

All the holy scriptures of all the world's major religions are nonsense.

If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.

Unless a man has despised worldly things, he shall not receive those which are divine.

We believe that nothing worthy of our worship would want our worship.

No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

There is no magic when one no longer believes.

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.