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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.

Daniel Dennett

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
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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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
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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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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Fair Ignorance Learning Myself Process Reading Writing
You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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Advertisement Better Religion Subtract Yourself
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
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
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
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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Criticism Feeling Hurt Opportunity Religious Situation Win

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.

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