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“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
“Giving in to terrorism will yield more terrorism, because it works.”
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
“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
“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 believers who say they are praying for me are victims of a lie and think they are doing something good; I let them know they are not. I tell them to imagine I had a newfangled gun that forcibly turned religious people into atheists. I tell them the gun didn’t really work, but I thought it did. Let’s say I decided to force them to be atheists, so I pointed the atheist gun at them and pulled the trigger. Would they think that was a nice thing to do? Would they appreciate my effort, or would they feel assaulted? When you pray for me, you are asking your god to change me. You are asking your god to forcibly enter my life and my brain and change my way of thinking (using euphemisms such as asking God to “open my heart to Jesus” is evidence of the intent of the assault).”
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
― Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
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