Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

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

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

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

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.