Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

I am only me for practical purposes.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.