It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail..

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power..

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics coul….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

We are all prisoners of our thoughts..

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

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

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….