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The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts, but a cap...more

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The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could...more

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Theology is ignorance with wings.

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It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are ge...more

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When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impos...more

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Christians.....expend more “moral” energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide.

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Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can...more

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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

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We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

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The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, i...more

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Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

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People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

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If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of errors,the truth is that it's possible to sink into the...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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There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.