Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.

Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.

So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?