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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…
- While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable…
- Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
- I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities…
- It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical…
- 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…
- Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates…
- You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we…
- Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost…
- The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word…
- It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting…
- The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
- 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
- We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
- Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness…
- Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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