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We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.


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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.



Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.



Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.



Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.



Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.



Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.



We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.



Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.



Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?



However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.





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Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.

Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.



He can't give you a future.""I know. Because I make my own future.

He can't give you a future.""I know. Because I make my own future.



I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.



There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!



In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.



The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?



We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.



A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.



My animals are a really important part of my life.

My animals are a really important part of my life.



Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.

Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.




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