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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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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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We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith ...more

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even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and homo...more

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The truth, however, is that most Muslims appear to be "fundamental-ist" in the Western sense of the word—in that even "moderate"approaches to Islam ge...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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While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds imme...more

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I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

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Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery ...more

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Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of rel...more

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[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

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There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at home, start with...more