it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

I vote and I do jury duty.

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?