Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.