Theology Is Ignorance With Wings.

Nonbelievers Like Myself Stand Beside You, Dumbstruck By The Muslim Hordes Who Chant Death To Whole Nations Of The Living. But We Stand Dumbstruck By You As Well--by Your Denial Of Tangible Reality, By The Suffering You Create In Service To Your Religious Myths, And By Your Attachment To An Imaginary God.

Meditation Puts Into Question More Or Less Everything You Tend To Do In Your Search For Happiness. But If You Lose Sight Of This, It Can Become Just Another Strategy For Seeking Happiness - A More Refined Version Of The Problem You Already Have.

Nothing Guarantees That Reasonable People Will Agree About Everything, Of Course, But The Unreasonable Are Certain To Be Divided By Their Dogmas. It Is Time We Recognized That This Spirit Of Mutual Inquiry, Which Is The Foundation Of All Real Science, Is The Very Antithesis Of Religious Faith.

Faith Enables Many Of Us To Endure Life's Difficulties With An Equanimity That Would Be Scarcely Conceivable In A World Lit Only By Reason.

The Fact That One Can Lose One's Sense Of Self In An Ocean Of Tranquility Does Not Mean That One's Consciousness Is Immaterial Or That It Presided Over The Birth Of The Universe.