I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.