Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross. - Mary Doria Russell

It’s not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.

For Russian Jews, Zionism was an immediate solution to age-old problems.
“Anywhere is better than Russia,” Karl agreed, “but for Western Jews, Zionism is a trap, I think. Once Jews are permitted a territorial center, it will be too easy to drive the rest of us from every other nation on Earth. ‘Go back where you belong!’ ” he cried dismissively, jerking his thumb toward Palestine. “ ‘Oh, by the way, leave all your possessions behind.’ ”
... But I have no need of some artificial homeland invented by the British. I am not a German Jew, Agnes, but a Jewish German.

I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.