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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we…

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“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,…

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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

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Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug…

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There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500…

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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

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In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our…

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When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have time to…

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One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What…

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No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur…

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The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on…

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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might…

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“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in…

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Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on…

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...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer-…

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Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.

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