We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

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

Theology is ignorance with wings.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person’s faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

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.