It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of Holocaust deniers it's more recent history, but in both cases the evidence - in favour of the Holocaust and evolution - is simply overwhelming. That doesn't mean they are morally or politically equivalent. But they are equivalent in denying history.

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

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

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.