“I spent 43 years believing in a false religion. Now I want my 43 years as an atheist. God owes me that.”

“If God does exist - He is not very good at religion.”

“You cannot work science around a predetermined belief system; you can only work (or rework) a belief system around science, current knowledge, and new evidence. If you are not willing to do that, you believe in the fanciful instead of understanding the factual – and that is delusional.”

“As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true, more than they are willing to face the possibility that it is not,they will not entertain evidence or reason.Delusion becomes a choice.”

“If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!”

“Lord, help me to begin to begin.”

“One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.”