Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.