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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.

Sam Harris

It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Frame Moral Religion True Universe
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
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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Ignorance Knowledge Production Religious Scripture Secularism
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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Life Power Reveal Science Time Understand
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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Decision Word Yourself
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
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
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Choice Conversation Faith Human Option Violence
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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Conscience Freedom Ourselves
Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker
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Born Eat Food God Heaven Virgin
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Bad Born Ideas Mom Moments Religion
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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Believe Dangerous Ethics People Yourself
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
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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Believe Ourselves Perfection Religion True
I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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String Theory
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.
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Achievement Fact Faith Fake Religious Uncertain

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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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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