"The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind." ~Edgar Allan Poe
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." ~Voltaire
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" ~ Epicurus [341–270 B.C.] Greek philosopher