Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.