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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.