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If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right, but they believe different things---they belong to different religions, different faiths, there is nothing they can do to settle their disagreement short of shooting each other, which is what they very often actually do.

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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.

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My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

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Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

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