It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. – Abraham Lincoln, quoted in What Great Men Think Of Religion by Ira Cardiff

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people – not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. – John D. Rockefeller