Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle.