Theology is ignorance with wings.
SAM HARRISValues reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
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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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I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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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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People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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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 science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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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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Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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