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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.