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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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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…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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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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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the…
— Annie Besant
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Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their…
— Eric Alterman
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.
— Pratibha Patil
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Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
— John Stott
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It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad…
— Adolf Hitler
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While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can…
— Adolf Hitler
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
— Edward Abbey
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
— Isaac Asimov
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,…
— John Fowles
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most…
— Dean Koontz
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