What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.