The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ’if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
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.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.