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.
DANIEL DENNETTYou 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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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’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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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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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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If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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