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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without whi...more

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The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of ...more

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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da

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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has c...more

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Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

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The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas...more

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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you ...more

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The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

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When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When we...more

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The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a mul...more

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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This busine...more

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All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all t...more

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I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what i...more