Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.