People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.