The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
タグ: religious-extremism, religion, extremism

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But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.
タグ: reason, god, faith, disprove, belief, atheist, atheism
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
タグ: fall, language, unique, communication
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
タグ: own, upset, understand, chance, selfish
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
タグ: true, will, thinking, change
Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
タグ: started, once, nothing, stop
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