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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 worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to…
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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that…
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It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever…
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.…
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Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution',…
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the…
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our…
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass…
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?…
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What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,…
— Theodore M. Burton
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