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As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, ...more

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Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The mome...more

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Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others – How did you get that b...more

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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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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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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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Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence...more

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It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to make cynical use of scientific language in a...more

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Theology is ignorance with wings.

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Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

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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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There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

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Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost e...more