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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Sam Harris

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
If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life – you won’t enjoy any of it.
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Angry Confusion Depression Enjoyment Life Success Yourself
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
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Character Explanation Islam Truth Violence
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Prison Thinking
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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Boundary Human Ourselves Politics Science Thinking Transcendence
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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Health Moral Science Social
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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Frame Human Myself Question Thinking Value
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
I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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String Theory
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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Believe Dangerous Ethics People Yourself
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
It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
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Belief Difficult Heart Imagination Lying Mental Religious Tradition
Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.
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Freedom Learning Limitation Society Tolerance
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion

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