If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

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

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

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.