What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

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

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Theology is ignorance with wings.