I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.