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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 their own. That's…
- Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In…
- Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the…
- Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
- Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
- It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical…
- Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued…
- Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine…
- Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time…
- Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our…
- We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights…
- The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the…
- Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything…
- The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word…
- The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
- Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious…
- We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent…
- Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
- While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it…
- The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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