Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.