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• The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all…
• How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little…
• I have a big problem with Islam.
• I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw…
• I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political…
• Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy…
• We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
• Religion is an irrational construct.
• Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
• We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews…
• By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of…
• You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

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