To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensMots clés women children religion atheism hell feminism sexism child-abuse women-and-religion rhetorical-questions religion-and-children
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.
Sidney HookMots clés atheism irreligion philosophy-religion
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam HarrisMots clés humor obvious philosophy atheism atheist justification galaxy elvis elvis-presley alchemy religious-beliefs
I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really does believe this, his lethargy and impotence in the face of Netanyahu's consistent double-dealing is even more culpable.) The Islamist fanatics have their own agenda, and, as in the case of Hamas and its Iranian backers, they have already demonstrated that nothing but the destruction of Israel and the removal of American influence from the region will possibly satisfy them. No, it is more the case that justice—and a homeland for the Palestinians—is a good and necessary cause in its own right. It is also a special legal and moral responsibility of the United States, which has several times declared a dual-statehood outcome to be its objective.
Christopher HitchensMots clés religion foreign-policy atheism united-states islam barack-obama israel palestine iran middle-east islamism israeli-palestinian-conflict hamas benjamin-netanyahu obama-foreign-policy obama-middle-east-policy us-foreign-policy
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
Christopher HitchensMots clés religion atheism united-states fundamentalism separation-of-church-and-state secularism united-states-constitution
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.
Noam ChomskyMots clés politics christianity religion atheism united-states church fundamentalism 2008 baptism piety bill-clinton lyndon-b-johnson hymns united-states-elections-2008 jimmy-carter politics-of-the-united-states born-again-christianity political-campaigns
How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?
Pete HautmanAnd why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
Robert G. IngersollMots clés god religion atheism
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?
Robert J. SawyerMots clés science atheism naturalism materialism darwinism double-standards big-bang intelligent-design macro-evolution macroevolution theism id religious-science-fiction theistic-science-fiction
We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.
Brian KransMots clés atheism self-discovery self-awareness
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