“Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.”

“Anytime I've tried to imagine squeezing myself into the box of any particular religion, I find it claustrophobic and oppressive. I think atheism is an acceptance of what is real.”

“Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.”

“Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.”

“And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.”

“Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.”

“Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils. And in fact I think you'd find it hard to discover a mass murderer in history who didn't think that.”

“Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.”

“If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.”

“In practice, Marxism has meant bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal prison camps and murderous forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and fraudulent show trials, outright mass murder and genocide.”