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

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

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.

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.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

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

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?