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It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

Daniel Dennett

The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
DANIEL DENNETT

Criticism Feeling Hurt Opportunity Religious Situation Win
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Care Effort Examination Life Meaning Worth
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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Crazy Medical Religious True Yourself
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing

It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

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It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

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