Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

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

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.