The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en … - Sam Harris

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Sam Harris

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Believe, People, Religion, Isolation, Allows

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Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

Care, Choose, Choose Wisely, Evil, Nothing, Take

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Causes, Determined, Chance, Prior

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

Family And Friends, Friends, Loss, Love, Suffering

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.

Atheist, Believe, Certain, Discourse, God, Sea

We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you will helplessly believe what I believe. I will give you my reasons and reasons are contagious. That is what it is to be a rational human being.

Believe, People, Giving, Rational, Contagious, Enough

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I think there is something about being described and having your abilities described as something definable. I was diagnosed at about six, when a teacher couldn't understand how I could be a bright girl and yet couldn't read yet. I did that whole backwards letters thing. I used to sit in the same place when I did homework because I remembered that B's went towards the window and D's went away from it.

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You are so, even when falling. " (Byakuya Kuchiki)

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Neal Shusterman

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

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When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

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