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When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent men before the eyes of theirfamilies, burning old ...more

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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse ...more

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If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our...more

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According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequence...more

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In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-...more

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We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teaching...more

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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's con...more

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Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

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Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

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One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows pe...more

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The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your...more

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The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through h...more

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This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name...more

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Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.