"Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology"

"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"

"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid"

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed"

"The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"