"God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization."
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."
"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."
"The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals."