“I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me”
― Archer's Voice
― Archer's Voice
“You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But you can get away with saying, ‘It violates my freedom of religion.’ What, when you think about it, is the difference? Yet again, religion trumps all.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ' Michael Shermer, In The Science of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stopper. If you agree that, in the absence of God, you would 'commit robbery, rape, and murder', you reveal yourself as an immoral person, 'and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you'. If, on the other hand, you admit that you would continue to be a good person even when not under divine surveillance, you have fatally undermined your claim that God is necessary for us to be good.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“In George Bernard Shaw’s words, ‘The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
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