Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

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

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

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.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.