The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.

--Christopher Hitchens

A religion is never "nobler" than when it has come to the point of taking itself for a superstition and witnessing its own eclipse with detachment.

--E.M Cioran