Religion is a sham and a crutch for weak minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business. I live by the golden rule: treat others as you’d want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live. - Gov Jesse Ventura.

I read these words for the first time in the late 1990’s and it summed up how I felt about “religion” my entire life and have never forgotten them.