A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
God is not described in equations.
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.
The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.
Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.
There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.
A dominant religion is never ascetic.