If a significant portion of our species insists on discriminating, hating, killing, and slowing scientific progress in the name of gods, then don't we owe it to ourselves to at least try and confirm whether or not these gods are even real
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“How could you worry about keeping Christ in Christmas if you didn’t know he was expendable?”
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
“No actual science is still hashing out the god thing. No physicists are losing sleep over the Kalam cosmological argument. No biologists are comparing their findings to the “god did it” model. No ethicists are proposing the “cause god’ll burn you in hell” approach. No doctors are prescribing prayer. No lawyers are invoking the “devil really did make him do it” defense. No financial planner is figuring in the “they’re about due for a miracle” variable. No meteorologists are factoring in god’s wrath. The god hypothesis failed.”
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
“Think about all the people that you love, that you plan on outliving. And next time you say goodbye to them, remind yourself that this could be the last time. And next time you say hello to them, treat them like they just returned from the dead. That’s something you can only do if you let go of the afterlife; when we keep mortality in the front of our minds instead of burying it behind religions and superstitions and pithy bravado. Imagine how beautiful the world would be if we all just admitted that we’re all going to die.”
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
“If you come to me with faith and get pissed when I ask for evidence, we don’t need to go any further than that.”
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
― Diatribes, Volume 2: 50 More Essays from a Scathing Atheist
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