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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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Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks…
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It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the…
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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
— William P. Young
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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from…
— Eckhart Tolle
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And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with…
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People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as…
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I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs
— John Elder Robison
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To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental…
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Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to…
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