My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.
Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.” But today, we won’t even honestly describe the motivations of our enemies. And in the act of lying to ourselves, we continue to pay lip service to the very delusions that empower them.
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.
Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish - is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. But we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price we are paying to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.
Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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