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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

Sam Harris

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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Evidence Faith Religion
When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we’re told that? God is mysterious.
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Cruelty Evidence God Innocent Mystery Suffering Visit
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
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Abandonment Desert Ethics Question
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
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Habit Mercy Moments Ourselves Wake Up
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
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
You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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Pretend Worth Yourself
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
Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
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Conscious Freedom Ourselves Simplicity Thinking Willing
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
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
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Atheist Noise Reason Religion
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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Encouragement Fake Motivational Person Purpose
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
Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Creature Fact Reduce Value

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

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