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

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

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

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

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.

Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter.