It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.