I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.