Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I love romantic poetry.
The Bible should be taught but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction myth poetry anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
God exists if only in the form of a meme with high survival value or infective power in the environment provided by human culture.
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator a God is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.