The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
A.C. GRAYLINGI do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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Inculcating the various competing – competing, note – falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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