We Are All Prisoners Of

It Is Terrible That We All Die And Lose Everything We Love; It Is Doubly Terrible That So Many Human Beings Suffer Needlessly While Alive. That So Much Of This Suffering Can Be Directly Attributed To Religion—to Religious Hatreds, Religious Wars, Religious Delusions And Religious Diversions Of Scarce Resources—is What Makes Atheism A Moral And Intellectual Necessity.

You Are Not Controlling The Storm, And You Are Not Lost In It. You Are The Storm.

Faith Drives A Wedge Between Ethics And Suffering. Where Certain Actions Cause No Suffering At All, Religious Dogmatists Still Maintain That They Are Evil And Worthy Of Punishment. . . . And Yet, Where Suffering And Death Are Found In Abundance Their Causes Are Often Deemed To Be Good. . . . This Inversion Of Priorities Not Only Victimizes Innocent People And Squanders Scarce Resources; It Completely Falsifies Our Ethics.

The Perpetrators Of The Inquisition - The Torturers, Informers, And Those Who Commanded Their Actions - Were Ecclesiastics Of One Rank Or Another. They Were Men Of God - Popes, Bishops, Friars, And Priests.

God Is Great"). Conversations About The Practical Impossibility Of God's Existence And The Science-based Irrationality Of An Afterlife Slid Seamlessly Into Xenophobia Over Muslim Immigration Or The Practice Of Veiling. The New Atheists Became The New Islamophobes, Their Invectives Against Muslims Resembling The Rowdy, Uneducated Ramblings Of Backwoods Racists Rather Than Appraisals Based On Intellect, Rationality And Reason. "islam, More Than Any Other Religion Human Beings Have Devised, Has All The Makings Of A Thoroughgoing Cult Of Death.