We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.