The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.