Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,….

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their….

A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neit….

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not ….

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love ….

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Tak….

Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no ….

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know..

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. ….

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance..

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will….

We are all prisoners of our thoughts..

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religio….

Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidenc….

The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well ed….

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, wha….

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds imm….

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings..

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives..

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do..

Theology is ignorance with wings..