It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth..

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinki….

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy..

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose..

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human his….

Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destruc….

Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God….