Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
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Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker
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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
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It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
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People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
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You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe as you do.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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