Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

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.

The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.

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

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.