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Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

Sam Harris

The 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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Argument Difference Evidence Passionate Willing
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
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 faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Evidence Faith Religion
To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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Different Live Myself Simplicity Universe
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
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Friendship Love Oneself Person Suffering Time World
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Control Lost Storm Yourself
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
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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Book Ordinary Product Value
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
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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Alone Believe Criticism People Problem Religion
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
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
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Believe Build Heaven Intellectual Person
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
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Faith Ourselves People Reason Religious Time
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Intellectual Public Reason Science Time
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
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Advice Appearance Level Oneself Wisdom

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