Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.