“Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit ...” — Penn Jillette Quote

“Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.”

“People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.”

“I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.”

“I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.”

“Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'”

“For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.”

“Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.”

“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”

“Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.”

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.”

“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”