"Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like."
"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16"
"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?"
"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."
"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."