My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.