You Can Do What You Decide To

It's Simply Untrue That Religion Provides The Only Framework For A Universal Morality.

Rather Than Bring The Full Force Of Our Creativity And Rationality To Bear On The Problems Of Ethics, Social Cohesion, And Even Spiritual Experience, Moderates Merely Ask That We Relax Our Standard Of Adherence To Ancient Superstitions And Taboos, While Otherwise Maintaining A Belief System That Was Passed Down To Us From Men And Women Whose Lives Were Simply Ravaged By Their Basic Ignorance About The World.

Atheism Is Nothing More Than The Noises Reasonable People Make When In The Presence Of Religious Dogma.

[i]t Is Difficult To Imagine A Set Of Beliefs More Suggestive Of Mental Illness Than Those That Lie At The Heart Of Many Of Our Religious Traditions.

How Can We Encourage Other Human Beings To Extend Their Moral Sympathies Beyond A Narrow Locus? How Can We Learn To Become Mere Human Beings, Shorn Of Any More Compelling National, Ethnic, Or Religious Identity? We Can Be Reasonable. It Is In The Very Nature Of Reason To Fuse Cognitive And Moral Horizons. Reason Is Nothing Less Than The Guardian Of Love.