Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-po...
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which se...
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himsel...
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheis...
یک نمونه آن پرسش فلسفی قدیمی است که میگوید: آیا تو هم مثل من قرمز میبینی؟ شاید آنچه برای تو قرمز مینماید برای من سبز باشید یا اصلاً رنگی باشد که در خیال من هم نمیگنجد! فیلسوفان این پرسش را در زمره...
باید به کودک آموخت که چگونه بیندیشد، نه اینکه چه بیندیشد.
We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, d...
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no Happy Hunting Ground where mourned pets go, and no angels - guardian or garden variet...
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of w...
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no S...
I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.
Anyone can popularize science if he oversimplifies.
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among