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

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.