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Theology is ignorance with wings.

Sam Harris

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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Activity Education Fast Man Survive Woman World
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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Evidence Hall Ourselves People Power Society Strong
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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Eyes God Nature Ourselves Reality World
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
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 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
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
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 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
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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Current Hold Holy Thinking
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
What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
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Believe Deep Entertainment Ethics Live Spiritual
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
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Evidence Faith Religion
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion

Theology is ignorance with wings.

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