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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Sam Harris

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we’re told that? God is mysterious.
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Cruelty Evidence God Innocent Mystery Suffering Visit
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Atheist Noise Reason Religion
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 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
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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Atheist Live Philosophy Principle Unfortunate World
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
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Assure Myself Offend Simplicity Worry
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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Evidence History Human Myself Society
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
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
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
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
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 power of psychedelics is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.
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Life Power Reveal Science Time Understand
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
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Argument Civilization Production Representation Tradition

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