If you want people to behave as Christians advocate, ... you should tell them that God does not exist.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

The past three years have been the most destructive in the Brazilian Amazon's history

14th-century pope with a 21st-century communications network (that) sustains his church's mission of persecuting gays and denying women ownership of their bodies.

Bob Geldof asked us to focus not on the harm the G8 leaders were doing, but on the help they might give. When they failed to deliver, he praised them anyway.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.