No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

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

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.