Vile!

"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."

"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watches over him and keeps him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea."

"The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example."

"All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten."

"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."

Mark Twain