What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
SAM HARRISThe 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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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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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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Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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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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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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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
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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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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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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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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
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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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