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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

Sam Harris

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
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Abandonment Desert Ethics Question
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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Believe Dangerous Ethics People Yourself
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
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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Argument Evidence Logic Prove Value Yourself
I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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String Theory
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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Open Ourselves Time World
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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Believe Ourselves Perfection Religion True
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
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Atheist Care Existence God Imagination Stop Wisdom Yourself
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn’t. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.
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Honesty Imagination Integrity Intellectual Religion Standard Truth Yourself
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
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Assure Myself Offend Simplicity Worry
Theology is ignorance with wings.
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Ignorance One Liner Wings
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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Faith Ourselves People Reason Religious Time
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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Freedom Love Point View
Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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Difficult Endurance Faith Life Reason
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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Boundary Human Ourselves Politics Science Thinking Transcendence
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
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Choice Conversation Faith Human Option Violence

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