We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

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

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a member of a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to these infidels—and flying a plane into a building is only a matter of being asked to do it.