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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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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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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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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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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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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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