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Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

Sam Harris

Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.
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Direction Human Perfection Religious Result Serious
You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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Pretend Worth Yourself
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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Health Moral Science Social
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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Belief Difficult Heart Imagination Lying Mental Religious Tradition
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
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Friendship Love Oneself Person Suffering Time World
The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
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Freedom Hide Kill Lost Thinking
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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Frame Human Myself Question Thinking Value
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
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Goodness Imporatant Lose World Worry
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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Atheist Live Philosophy Principle Unfortunate World
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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Appearance Atheist Fantasy Life Reality Shame Touch
The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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Cleaning Infrastructure Live Research Science
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Argument Civilization Production Representation Tradition
George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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Failure Religion
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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Decision Word Yourself
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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Belief Believe Difference God Impossible Name Respect Right Suffering
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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Ignorance Knowledge Production Religious Scripture Secularism

Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

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Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

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