You Can Do What You Decide To

And While Protestant Reformers Broke With Rome On A Variety Of Counts, Their Treatment Of Their Fellow Human Beings Was No Less Disgraceful. Public Executions Were More Popular Than Ever: Heretics Were Still Reduced To Ash, Scholars Were Tortured And Killed For Impertinent Displays Of Reason, And Fornicators Were Murdered Without A Qualm.

What We Do In Every Other Area Of Our Lives (other Than Religion), Is, Rather Than Respect Somebody's Beliefs, We Evaluate Their Reasons.

Nonbelievers Like Myself Stand Beside You, Dumbstruck By The Muslim Hordes Who Chant Death To Whole Nations Of The Living. But We Stand Dumbstruck By You As Well--by Your Denial Of Tangible Reality, By The Suffering You Create In Service To Your Religious Myths, And By Your Attachment To An Imaginary God.

Morality And Values Depend On The Existence Of Conscious Minds - And Specifically On The Fact That Such Minds Can Experience Various Forms Of Well-being And Suffering In This Universe.

I Think It [getting A Gun] Should Be Like Getting A Pilot's License. I Think You Should Require Training To Get A License To Have A Gun.