Why do people think there are so few gods? Most people think there is just one god but we know many gods have sustained humans throughout time. We have counted ten thousand or so but it could be a lot more—we have no idea how many there were before our recorded history.But counting...

There are very many paintings of Jesus, all of them painted by artists who have never seen their subject. All these paintings are works of imagination with some, most likely, borrowing from the imaginative work of earlier artists. Exactly the same process was used to write the Gospels....

People sometimes ask me if I would like to see the end of all religion across the planet. I say it depends. It depends on what these religions would be replaced with. There is no guarantee they will be replaced with reason, tolerance and universal observance of human rights....