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

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.