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Carl Sagan: The expose of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

 

Excessive religious liberalism can prevent criticisms of the lunatic, thus allowing fundamentalism to thrive and increasing the risk of a theocracy, which has never tolerated dissent.

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Did a god create humans? 25% of pregnancies are miscarried by the sixth week LMP (since the woman's Last Menstrual Period). Half of them end without the natural death of the fetus. What a wonderful abortionist machine God built!

 

Richard Dawkins: "Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"

 

See also: Sam Harris on the "atheist" label

 

The U.S. should invade hell and kill God (relax, it's a satire, and very funny).

 

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