"The personages of the Christian heaven and their conversations are no more matter of fact than the personages of the Greek Olympus and their conversations."

“Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”

New York Times: As an only child, did you find one of your parents easier to talk to than the other?
Christopher Buckley: My mother. She got it. He often didn’t get it.
NYT: What didn’t he get?
CB: Religion.
NYT: He was a practicing Catholic. What are you?
CB: I am post-Catholic.
NYT: As opposed to a lapsed Catholic?
CB: I am probably more of a collapsed Catholic.
NYT: Do you believe in the afterlife?
CB: Alas, no.

“I have a particular faith, I describe myself as a Jewish atheist. I’m Jewish by birth origin and it’s part of who I am. I don’t believe in God, but I think faith is a really important thing for a lot of people."

"My religion is doubt. I believe with all my heart that I will never know everything, that the decisions I make will necessarily be flawed by the imperfect assumptions I base them on but that the only way to keep learning is to change those assumptions when faced with new evidence."

"I look upon myself as a humanist. I have faith in the goodness of mankind."

“I could see the fear in his eyes when he was smiling. I went to see the preacher, the guy who’d baptized me. I begged him to come and visit Daddy, just to talk to him, you know? Give him a blessing or something. But he never did. He never came. God, I hated him. Cold-ass bastards like that ought to — I don’t know — they should be in some other racket, I know that. I had no time for religion after that. I never prayed. I never said another prayer. Not like I meant it anyway.”