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“Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think...”
– Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)
August 2011
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“My father described it as a means of error-correction. If you are a reporter and...”
– Dorion Sagan - Science Writer and Son of Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
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Why can't atheism and polytheism get along?
scar-lip:
I’m not sitting here saying you have to believe in deities. Or that there’s anything wrong wtih people who don’t. Or try to point out why you’re wrong. You aren’t wrong.
But neither am I. And believing in deities doesn’t make me [ableist slur here]. It doesn’t make me ignorant. It doesn’t make me uneducated. It doesn’t make me anti-science (I love science- although I hate the way...
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July 2011
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bishopfeed:
“America today is becoming what I call an atheocracy — a society that is actively hostile to religious faith and religious believers. An atheocracy is a dangerous place, both morally and spiritually. Cut off from the religious moorings expressed in the Declaration, we risk becoming a nation without a soul, a people with no common purpose apart from material pursuits.”
— Bishop James...
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Why is religion stronger in economically unequal... →
In other words, in economically skewed societies, both the rich and the poor are more religious. In fact, they found that, for nearly all of the measures of religiosity, when societies are more unequal, the richer people become more religious than the poorer people (this association was positive for all 12 measures of religiosity and was statistically significant for four).
This last finding...
“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
– Tom Wolfe (via abaldwin360)
June 2011
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“As a scientist, I don’t think our indulgence of irrational superstition is...”
– Richard Dawkins (via sixtyforty)
May 2011
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April 2011
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“The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem...”
– Thomas Paine - English-born American author and revolutionary leader. Theodore Roosevelt called him a “filthy little atheist.” Actually a deist; wrote the definitive text of deism, The Age of Reason, which used reason to establish a belief in Nature’s Designer, but attacked Christianity as a...
March 2011
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“Faith is not wanting to know what’s true.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via atheistinspiration)
“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan (via thecrocodilehunter)
Bill O'Reilly: You're not gonna persuade [Islamic extremist terrorists], because, by their very nature, they're nuts. They're crazy.
Sam Harris: They're actually not crazy.
Bill O'Reilly: Anybody who would kill themselves and think they're gonna get seventy-two virgins, um, you know, I gotta say, is insane.
Sam Harris: But it's actually no crazier than believing that a cracker literally turns into the body of Jesus. It has terrible behavioural outcomes, but it is equally unsupported by evidence.
Bill O'Reilly: No, no, no, no, I have to challenge you there. A cracker that people believe is the embodiment of Jesus hurts no one. It's a matter of faith. It's a positive thing for those who believe it, in the sense they try to love their neighbour as themselves. These people are going out killing--
Sam Harris: Right, different behavioural consequences.
Bill O'Reilly: There's a very big difference in that kind of faith.
Sam Harris: There's a very big difference in the outcome. There's no difference at the level of rationality.
February 2011
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“The suicide bombing community is entirely religious. The genital mutilation...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via girlagainstreligion)
“(Polyamory is the belief that one can simultaneously love several members of the...”
– Richard Dawkins (via viveriueniversumvivusvici)
interesting! any rebuttals?
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“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics,...”
– Carl Sagan (via thenuclearnicole)
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t...”
– Carl Sagan
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“When scientists don’t know something — like why the universe came into being or...”
– Sam Harris (via ageofreason)
Are we made of stardust? A Christian View.
liberal-life:
This is the rather simplistic conclusion of the big bang theory, whereby the original chemical elements of the early universe are thought to be limited to hydrogen, helium, and lithium. According to this secular view, all the other elements, now numbering 111, were later formed by nuclear reactions within the cores of ancient stars. When these stars eventually exploded as...
