Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

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

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.

But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.