Fave quotes

Over at Debunking Christianity there's a flash movie showing several quotes about theology and religion. It's embedded here, but these are my favorites because they comment on my own experience:

No man is convinced the Bible means exactly what it says. He is convinced it says exactly what he means. -Mark Twain

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh" -R.A. Heinlein

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos McKown

Everyone starts our being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. - Andy Rooney

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Unknown

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass

You can't convince a believer of anything; their belief is not based on evidence but on a deep-seated need to believe. -Carl Sagan

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. - Sigmund Freud

It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however reassuring. - Carl Sagan