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.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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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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