Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.