You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
SAM HARRISThe science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
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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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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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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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Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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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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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you.
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To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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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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