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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…
- Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
- 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…
- Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when…
- I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I…
- Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
- I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on…
- Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they…
- A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in…
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one…
- People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
- Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
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