[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

All of life is a wager

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.