To define what we are is to reduce and distort what we are: to say that we are nothing but our desires or nothing but our self-interest is to misrepr… - Eric Maisel

This looks to be a moment when atheism is capturing the imagination of many millions of people. At exactly the same time, fundamental religious belief is growing unchecked. These two events are likely intimately related, as rational people are frightened back to their rationality by fundamentalism and believers dig in harder against liberty, justice, and reason.

Life is a project to live, not a mystery to unravel.

We are on the threshold of understanding a shining idea: that each life can have meaning, even if the universe has none.