Armin Navabi

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away._ This touches on the heart of the argumentum ad populum fallacy. Physical reality does not require belief to sustain it, and belief will not modify the rules of the universe.

There is no evidence to suggest that God helps people. There is, however, ample evidence that people can help themselves and each other.

Science doesn't claim to have absolute certainty about the world; it creates models that provide the best explanation based on the available evidence. If additional evidence is found, the model can be changed.

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.

An unknown cause is not the same as divine intervention.

Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology.

Close analysis of __iracles_ have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena.

It is likely that religious beliefs have been so widespread because they tap into the psychological desires of many people, not because there is any external proof of their veracity.

If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.