The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

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.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.