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

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

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).