I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.