“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”

“To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.”

“Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.”

“Nothing that a Christian and a Muslim can say to each other will render their beliefs mutually vulnerable to discourse, because the very tenets of their faith have immunized them against the power of conversation. Believing strongly, without evidence, they have kicked themselves loose of the world. It is therefore in the very nature of faith to serve as an impediment to further inquiry.”

“but sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.”