How come when it's us, it's an 'abortion', and when it's a chicken, it's an 'omelette'?

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

Faith has fallen. What goes in its place? Wonder.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

What do I think happens when we die? It's the same as it was before I was here -- which makes it incumbent upon us to create a heaven on Earth now, and not hell.

Pope Francis: "...sins of the flesh were certainly sins but not as great as sins such as...pride..."

Stephen Colbert: "So if you are proud of yourself for not having an affair, God would rather you bang anything that moves."

45 thousand 'shards' of Christianity

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit.