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.
SAM HARRISThe science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
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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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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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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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Theology is ignorance with wings.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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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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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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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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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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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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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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