Bill Lyman

“The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals.”
― Richard Dawkins

“I write to discover what I think”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, ‘Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to recite the Nicene Creed, and I can decide to swear on a stack of bibles that I believe every word inside them. But none of that can make me actually believe it if I don't. Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism