“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

"Since I am an atheist, and do not believe that either God or Satan, Heaven or Hell, exists, I can only suppose that when I die, there will only be an eternity of nothingness to follow."

"As a set of cognitive beliefs, religion is a speculative hypothesis of low order of probability."

Turner ridicules the idea of "hell," believes "nature is god" and rejects the biblical concept of creation.