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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…
• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
• As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
• Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
• Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
• To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
• 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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