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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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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,…
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People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…
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We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…
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America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way…
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That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness:…
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Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the…
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The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are…
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My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them.…
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The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for…
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