The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.