How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

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.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.