Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.

Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

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