Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

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

Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

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