Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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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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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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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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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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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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It takes a certain ingenuous faith – but I have it – to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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I 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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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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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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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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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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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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The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
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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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