...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell. - Tom Robbins

She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.

If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

Watts published a luminous book entitled The Wisdom of Insecurity that ought to be required reading for every high school senior. Watts elaborates beautifully on what I've learned from observation and personal experience: namely, that security is an illusion.