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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 truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
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Death Philosophy Simplicity Truth
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
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Science
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
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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Definition Lying Relationship Trust Understand
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Evidence Faith Religion
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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Bad Ethics Evil Freedom God Philosophy Problem
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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Argument Difference Evidence Passionate Willing
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
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
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
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Fact Reality Statement Work
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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Believe Creation Earth Invention Science
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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Activity Education Fast Man Survive Woman World
Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.
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Freedom Learning Limitation Society Tolerance
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

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