For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.