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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 their own. That's…
- Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance.…
- It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
- Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued…
- The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified…
- We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy…
- Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our…
- According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant…
- In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We…
- Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to…
- People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should…
- We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
- If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are…
- The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness…
- For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the…
- The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could…
- While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds…
- As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the…
- The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so…
- By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines…
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