Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Everybody is somewhere.

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.