The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence-is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity-a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse.[2]

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 is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.[2]

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse.[2]

There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommod…

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unkno…