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It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be t...more

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Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abje...more

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The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have the need for the transcenden...more

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We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the cont...more

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If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement ther...more

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Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and ...more

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[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the ...more

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

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At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity....more

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Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states ...more

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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

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Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.

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I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its c...more

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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Chur...more