You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.