" I began to question whether god intended to cast three quarters of human kind into outer darkness because they had never heard of him ...so I lost my formal faith but in anthropology I found an authentic framework which explains much of what goes on in the world without having to introduce gods. " | " The loveliness of the world is not apparent to me in Islam, Christianity, or all the other major religions. It seems to me as if it's like mentally you tie one hand behind your back and you close yourself off the free inquiring spirit. " | " The devout man thinks himself obliged to place no bounds to his credulity; the more things are inconceivable, they appear to him divine; the more they are incredible, the greater merit, he imagines, there is in believing them. " |
" Faith is belief in the absence of evidence, I don't propose to tell anybody what to believe, but for me believe without evidence is a mistake. " | " I think it would be a total monstrous doctrine to believe that God would create a world in which a two year old child would die a slow a lingering death from hunger a thirst, because that baby's alleged ancestors sinned. " | " God has been designed to be beyond the verification processes of science. " |