No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.