Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will be the science of Christianity.