The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.