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- Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
- The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.…
- Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant…
- Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing…
- One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all…
- What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend…
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
- There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president…
- Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
- In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology…
- Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.
- 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…
- It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play…
- One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the…
- Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
- 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group…
- And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I…
- It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the…
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