Faith Means Intense, Usually Confident, Belief That

Those Who Believe In God Because Their Experience Of Life And The Facts Of Nature Prove His Existence Must Have Led Sheltered Lives And Closed Their Hearts To The Voice Of Their Brothers' Blood.

It Is Widely Assumed, Contrary To Fact, That Theism Necessarily Involves The Two Assumptions Which Cannot Be Squared With The Existence Of So Much Suffering, And That Therefore, Per Impossibile, They Simply Have To Be Squared With The Existence Of All This Suffering, Somehow.

Success Is No Proof Of Virtue. In The Case Of A Book, Quick Acclaim Is Presumptive Evidence Of A Lack Of Substance And Originality.

The Deepest Difference Between Religions Is Not That Between Polytheism And Monotheism.

The Doctrine Of Original Sin Claims That All Men Sinned In Adam; But Whether They Did Or Whether It Is Merely A Fact That All Men Sin Does Not Basically Affect The Problem Of Suffering.