The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization.

Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or….

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth..

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more..

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponent….

hope is not a plan of action..

My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort of stay comfortably in a religio….

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that….

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of scien….

More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, mu….

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking..

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti….

The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in ….

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasion….

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance….

This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played….

It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes….

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization..

Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don'….

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict..

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense..