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DANIEL DENNETTAs every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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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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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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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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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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Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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