That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?