Jesuit

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." H. L. Mencken

"I am not the official church Jesus!" Klaus Kinski

"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined." Georg Büchner

"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews, but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks." Albert Jay Nock

"I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?" Tommy Lasorda

"At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area." Gore Vidal

"I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether." Neil Postman

"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people." Harold Wallace Rosenthal

"Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views." Ezra Pound

"Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins." Samuel Adams

"It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls." Allan Bloom

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." Aldous Huxley

"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." C. S. Lewis

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco