Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

I have a big problem with Islam.

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.