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.
DANIEL DENNETT
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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