Darren
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“You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to the effects in your life, and you make them up without realizing it when you don't know the answers. Over time, these explanations become your idea of who you are and your place in the world. They are your self... You are a story you tell yourself.”
― You Are Not So Smart
― You Are Not So Smart
“The real reason people oppose marriage equality is religious in nature. Marriage equality is therefore not only a civil rights issue, but also a separation-of-church-and-state issue.”
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
“The sum total of all scientifically valid proof supporting the existence of all of world’s gods, combined, is zero.”
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
“If you are thinking about buying a particular make of new car, you suddenly see people driving that car all over the roads. If you just ended a longtime relationship, every song you hear seems to be written about love. If you are having a baby, you start to see babies everywhere. Confirmation bias is seeing the world through a filter.”
― You Are Not So Smart
― You Are Not So Smart
“That’s why anyone claiming morality is fixed is simply ignorant of world history, or even American history, not to mention the state of the world today.”
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
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