In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

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

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.