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

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was authored by an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent deity.

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.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.