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.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.