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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.

Sam Harris

Theology is ignorance with wings.
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Ignorance One Liner Wings
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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Abusive God Kill People Name Oppression Reading
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
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
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
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
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Creation Enough God Man Moments
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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Evidence Hall Ourselves People Power Society Strong
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
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Character Explanation Islam Truth Violence
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 just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
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
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
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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Different Live Myself Simplicity Universe
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
Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
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Eyes God Nature Ourselves Reality World
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
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Fact Myself Reason Rejection Thinking

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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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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