Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual? Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any other conclusion than 'barking mad'.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Without religion you have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. (Quoting …

You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God?

If we love God, then it requires us to hate idolatry. If we believe there is such a thing as goodness, then we must also recognise the presence of evil. If we …

Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!

I don't mind praying to the eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.