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"It's a holy world war with angels and demons fighting in human form." — Apr 17, 2026 08:20PM
"It's a holy world war with angels and demons fighting in human form." — Apr 17, 2026 08:20PM
A 2013 Institute of Medicine report found that even as women’s life expectancy has risen overall, U.S. women are “dying at younger ages” than our international peers, a trend that has been worsening for three decades.4 And the quality of
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“God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh – Voltaire (1694-1778)”
― The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity
― The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity
“What happens when different people have incompatible conceptions of niceness?”
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“Contingency, the flux of life: in a word, evolution. From the Latin, meaning the unrolling of a book.”
― Blue Mars
― Blue Mars
“In 1966, the Roman Catholic Church formally ended the largest censorship drive in the history of the world, formally known as the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Index of Forbidden Books). Formally launched in 1559 under Pope Paul IV, this four-century project was remarkably successful, even against non-Catholics. The Church was so powerful in Europe and America that many authors would avoid controversial topics, or modify their works according to the Church's dictates, in order to avoid condemnation by the Church. Authors who ignored the Church's dictates and were banned had trouble finding publishers. Even if they were published, their books were often hard or impossible to find because bookstores were under pressure not to stock them.”
― The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity
― The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity
“Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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