In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

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

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.