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.
SAM HARRISValues reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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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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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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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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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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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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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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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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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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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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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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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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An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).
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It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
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