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Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the cre...

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[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small...

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Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in ...

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The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...

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Salman RushdieStep Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

The truth, however, is that most Muslims appear to be "fundamental-ist" in the Western sense of the ...

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Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious convictio...

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...

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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

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Bart D. EhrmanGod's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious tho...

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...

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At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

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Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defende...

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Christopher HitchensThe Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous mer...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence we...

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The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...

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Eric HofferThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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Eugene V. DebsVoices of a People's History of the United States

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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Eugene V. DebsVoices of a People's History of the United States

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...

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The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiorit...

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Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument mach...

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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

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Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief enc...

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I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That sett...

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