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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Sam Harris

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
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion
The power of psychedelics is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.
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Life Power Reveal Science Time Understand
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Atheist Noise Reason Religion
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
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
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
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God Ourselves Word World
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
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
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Death Philosophy Simplicity Truth
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Prison Thinking
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
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
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Belief Live Ourselves Place Reason Religion Respect
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
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Advice Appearance Level Oneself Wisdom
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
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.
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Civilization Cultural Faith Greatness Ourselves Problem Religious

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