Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.