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- Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though…
- My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any…
- Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done…
- In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew.…
- We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze…
- I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead…
- I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I…
- I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
- If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a…
- Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they…
- If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at…
- I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any…
- The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a…
- Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and…
- The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we…
- I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite…
- I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others,…
- She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
- Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an…
- It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A…
- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
- If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced…
- I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is…
- I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a…
- Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms…
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