“On your left you have a God who is all-knowning and omnipotent, and on your right you have a book that contains more errors than a Lindsay Lohan post-it. The left, being omniscient, omnipotent and living outside time, has no ability to change his mind; the right, being from human origin, contains more changes of opinion, mind and action than a Diana Ross show contains dress changes.”

An integral part of our vacations had always been visiting architectural and cultural buildings. I cannot remember a single summer holiday in which we just vacationed and relaxed. The usual suspects always came up in our agenda: musea, historical cities, landscapes of importance, palaces, castles and châteaux, and of course, churches. Now, I wasn’t brought [...]

For many believers, my opposition to religion is unacceptable, strange and meaningless, but somehow theists do find a little bit of respect for it — not in the sense that they also believe it, or that they even find it a possibility or fact, but in the sense that they can (somewhat) respect my opinion [...]

To organise the mess that is my mind, I keep a little black book (an actual one) with me and scribble random thoughts in it. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes you get things like this: “laissez-faire, status quo, self improvement.” Don’t know why I wrote it down, what the connection between the three was, or [...]