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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we…
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…
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That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a…
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We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not…
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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with…
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The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
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Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of…
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing…
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well…
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent…
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Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of…
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing…
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It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic…
— Barack Obama
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As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as…
— Robert Bork
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
— Henry George
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Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very…
— Mitt Romney
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…
— Susan Jacoby
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…
— Michael Shermer
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