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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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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the…
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small…
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Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic…
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Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present…
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