Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.