Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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