Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. ~ Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in physics
Heard this recently quoted in a documentary by Richard Dawkins based on his new book The God Delusion. At first I thought his point of view a little too much, but I'm beginning to think someone needs to be saying these things now.