God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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If you read John Clare’s imperishable rural poems you will catch the music of what I mean to convey.
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the most educated person in the world now has to admit—I shall not say confess—that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.
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Even in modern and hedonistic America, several states legally define “sodomy” as that which is not directed at face-to-face heterosexual procreation.
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A consistent proof that religion is man-made and anthropomorphic can also be found in the fact that it is usually “man” made, in the sense of masculine, as well. The holy book in the longest continuous use—the Talmud—commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.
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I shall not disagree with the very brave Professor Hoodbhoy, who helped alert us to the fact that there were several secret bin Laden supporters among the bureaucrats of the Pakistani nuclear program, and who also exposed the wild fanatics within that system who hoped to harness the power of the mythical djinns, or desert devils, for military purposes.