Recently read Breaking the Spell
"Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word, either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audience with God. We have to trust them as reporters - and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story." -- Andy Rooney in Sincerely, Andy Rooney
"The Pope traditionally prays for peace every Easter and the fact that it has never had any effect whatsoever in preventing or ending a war never deters him. What goes through the Pope's mind about being rejected all the time? Does God have it in for him?" -- Andy Rooney in Sincerely, Andy Rooney
"When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work that way -- so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness" -- Emo Phillips
"Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things - that takes religion." -- Stephen Weinberg
"Whenever conviction grows in inverse proportion to it's justification, we have lost the very basis of human cooperation" -- Sam Harris
"Capitalism may indeed exploit the workers, but you can't show this simply by spelling profit 'exploitation'" -- Jamie Whyte
"The idea that sincerity may substitute for reason is founded on an egocentric attitude toward belief: that what I believe is all about me, not about reality" -- Jamie Whyte
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