Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

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

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.