We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

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

You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.