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.
SAM HARRIS
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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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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People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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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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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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The perpetrators of the Inquisition – the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions – were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God – popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
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Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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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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Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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