"The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart."
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"Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being."
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"The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy."
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"The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless."
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"Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan."
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"If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite."
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"Instant Karma is going to get you."
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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
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"All religions are true but none are literal."
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"There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary."
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"Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation."
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"Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods."
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"As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this."
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death."
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"To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it."
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"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
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"To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
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"The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit."
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"Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it."
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"Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token"
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