Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.