Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
SAM HARRISDespite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
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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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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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The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.
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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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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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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
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You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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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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Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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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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