"Any simple claim that you need religion to……" — Paul Bloom

"Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong."

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39 Quotes by Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God…
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using…
Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize…
And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and…
If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that…
We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is…
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive…
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with…
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of…
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance,…

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