We Rely On Faith Only In The

Compatibilism Amounts To Nothing More Than An Assertion Of The Following Creed: A Puppet Is Free As Long As He Loves His Strings.

Every One Of The World's "great" Religions Utterly Trivializes The Immensity And Beauty Of The Cosmos. Books Like The Bible And The Koran Get Almost Every Significant Fact About Us And Our World Wrong. Every Scientific Domain -- From Cosmology To Psychology To Economics -- Has Superseded And Surpassed The Wisdom Of Scripture. Everything Of Value That People Get From Religion Can Be Had More Honestly, Without Presuming Anything On Insufficient Evidence. The Rest Is Self-deception, Set To Music.

Faith Does Not Offer A Strong Link Between Our Beliefs And Actual States Of The World.

You Know, When You Get To The New World And You Develop Your Three Branches Of Government And You Have A Civil Society, You Can Just Jettison All The Barbarism I Recommended In The First Books.

You Cannot Take Death For Apostasy Seriously And Be Working For Peace.