I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without human limitations who is read into the heavens. We disguised this process by suggesting that the reason God was so much like a human being was that the human beings were in fact created in God's image. However, we now recognize that if was the other way around. The God of theism came into being as a human creation. As such, this God, too, was mortal and is now dying.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.