Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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