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Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

Sam Harris

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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Argument Difference Evidence Passionate Willing
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
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Fact Myself Reason Rejection Thinking
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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Appearance Atheist Fantasy Life Reality Shame Touch
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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Decision Word Yourself
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe as you do.
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Belief Believe Difference God Impossible Name Respect Right Suffering
Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
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God Ourselves Word World
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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Bad Ethics Evil Freedom God Philosophy Problem
If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
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Argument Evidence Logic Prove Value Yourself
Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
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Eyes God Nature Ourselves Reality World
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Evidence Faith Religion
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
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Advice Appearance Level Oneself Wisdom
How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.
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Attention Live Moments Ourselves Pay Present Quality
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
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Accountability Chance Determination Prior Responsibility Willing
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
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Atheist Care Existence God Imagination Stop Wisdom Yourself
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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Current Hold Holy Thinking

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

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Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

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