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

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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, "atheism" is a term that should no...more

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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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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should no...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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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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It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was authored by the Creator of the universe...more

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Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

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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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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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[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.