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Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

Sam Harris

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
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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Difference Goodness Natural Ourselves Reminder
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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Failure Religion
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
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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Belief Believe Difference God Impossible Name Respect Right Suffering
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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Open Ourselves Time World
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
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Definition Lying Relationship Trust Understand
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
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
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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Creation Enough God Man Moments
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion
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
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
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
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Science
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
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Atheist Care Existence God Imagination Stop Wisdom Yourself

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