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Theology is ignorance with wings.
As a man believes, so he will act.
I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
This is how you play tennis without the net
If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.
Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem
Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas
You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.