It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?

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.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Theology is ignorance with wings.