I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law and those efforts benefit greatly from the conviction that individually and collectively we cannot be good without God.

Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.