All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sense as well. They believe that religion should be very much a private affair and should not be given special treatment. The State should not fund churches for example.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism