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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 chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of…
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If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often…
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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any…
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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
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It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was…
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is…
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot…
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