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.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.