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.

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

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.