Strange Bonds Of Trust And Self-deception Tend

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.

All I'm Arguing For Really Is That We Should Have A Conversation Where The Best Ideas Really Thrive, Where There's No Taboo Against Criticizing Bad Ideas, And Where Everyone Who Shows Up, In Order To Get Their Ideas Entertained, Has To Meet Some Obvious Burdens Of Intellectual Rigor And Self-criticism And Honesty-and When People Fail To Do That, We Are Free To Stop Listening To Them. What Religion Has Had Up Until This Moment Is A Different Set Of Rules That Apply Only To It, Which Is You Have To Respect My Religious Certainty Even Though I'm Telling You I Arrived At It Irrationally.

You Cannot Take Death For Apostasy Seriously And Be Working For Peace.

Human Experience Depends On Everything That Can Influence States Of The Human Brain, Ranging From Changes In Our Genome To Changes In The Global Economy.

Either Our Wills Are Determined By Prior Causes And We Are Not Responsible For Them, Or They Are The Product Of Chance And We Are Not Responsible For Them.