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Danny is Currently Reading

Danny is currently reading:

More Information Than You Require

by John Hodgman

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Jan 20, 2012 04:57pm

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris

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Jan 20, 2012 04:56pm

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Danny marked as to-read: The Gardens Of Democracy: A New American Story Of Citizenship, The Economy, And The Role Of Government by Eric Liu	My rating:
Feb 07, 2012 04:50pm
Danny marked as to-read: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond	My rating:
Feb 06, 2012 09:22am
Danny is currently reading: More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman	My rating:
Jan 20, 2012 04:57pm
Danny is currently reading: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris	My rating:
Jan 20, 2012 04:56pm
Danny added: The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens by John Duffy read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 20, 2012 04:55pm
Danny liked Tatiana's review of The Word for World is Forest: " In all honesty, the basic premise of this novella is the one I've read/seen many times before both in fiction (the latest version is James Cameron's "Avatar") and reality. A group of evil and greedy Terrans is in a process of co... " Read more of this review »
Jan 05, 2012 05:04pm · see review
Danny gave to: The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 05, 2012 05:03pm
Danny added: I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist's Eyes by Hemant Mehta read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 01, 2012 07:25am
Danny added: The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens	My rating:
Dec 22, 2011 05:36pm
Danny added: Specials (Uglies, #3) by Scott Westerfeld read in December, 2011	My rating:
Dec 17, 2011 03:59pm

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: belief , bible

33 people liked it

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance

1,042 people liked it

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: bible , christianity , god , religion , yahweh

419 people liked it

“The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

20 people liked it

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war

328 people liked it

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