We Are All Prisoners Of Our Thoughts.

The Most Transformative Experiences People Have - Bliss, Devotion, Self Transcendence - Are Currently Anchored To The Worst Parts Of Culture And To Ways Of Thinking That Merely Amplify Superstition, Self-deception, And Conflict.

Atheism Is Just A Way Of Clearing The Space For Better Conversations.

Where We Have Reasons For What We Believe, We Have No Need Of Faith; Where We Have No Reasons, We Have Lost Both Our Connection To The World And To One Another.

Religious Faith Obscures Uncertainty Where Uncertainty . . . Exists, Allowing The Unknown, The Implausible, And The . . . False To Achieve Primacy Over The Facts.

Death Is, In Some Ways, Unacceptable. It's Just An Astonishing Fact Of Our Being Here That We Die; But I Think Worse Than That Is If We Live Long Enough, We Lose Everyone We Love In This World. I Mean People Die And Disappear, And We're Left With This Stark Mystery: Just The Sheer Not Knowing Of What Happened To Them.