Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.