Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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