The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.