Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
SAM HARRISJesus 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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Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
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The perpetrators of the Inquisition – the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions – were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God – popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
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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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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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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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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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Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.
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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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As a man believes, so he will act.
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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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