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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.

Sam Harris

If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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Sex Victim
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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Action God Information Man Oneself Torture
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
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
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Encouragement Fake Motivational Person Purpose
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
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Goodness Imporatant Lose World Worry
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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Freedom Love Point View
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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Correct Faith Human Ignorance Possible Religious
The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
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Freedom Hide Kill Lost Thinking
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.
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Direction Human Perfection Religious Result Serious
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
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Believe Creation Earth Invention Science
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
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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Activity Education Fast Man Survive Woman World
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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Achievement Fact Faith Fake Religious Uncertain
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

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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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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