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The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

Sam Harris

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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Freedom Love Point View
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
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
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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Argument Difference Evidence Passionate Willing
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.
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Arrogance Church
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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Abusive God Kill People Name Oppression Reading
If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life – you won’t enjoy any of it.
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Angry Confusion Depression Enjoyment Life Success Yourself
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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Atheist Live Myself Offend Population Society
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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Health Moral Science Social
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
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Creature Fact Reduce Value
If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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Sex Victim
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
Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
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God Ourselves Word World
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

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