You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
SAM HARRIS
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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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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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
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How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.
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Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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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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Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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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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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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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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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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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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