Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do