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It Is Taboo In Our Society To Criticize A Persons Religious Faith... These Taboos Are Offensive, Deeply Unreasonable, But Worse Than That, They Are Getting People Killed. This Is Really My Concern. My Concern Is That Our Religions, The Diversity Of Our Religious Doctrines, Is Going To Get Us Killed. I'm Worried That Our Religious Discourse- Our Religious Beliefs Are Ultimately Incompatible With Civilization.

Atheism Is Nothing More Than The Noises Reasonable People Make When In The Presence Of Religious Dogma.

Indeed, What Is Startling About The Notion Of A Victimless Crime Is That Even When The Behavior In Question Is Genuinely Victimless, Its Criminality Is Still Affirmed By Those Who Are Eager To Punish It. It Is In Such Cases That The True Genius Lurking Behind Many Of Our Laws Stands Revealed. The Idea Of A Victimless Crime Is Nothing More Than A Judicial Reprise Of The Christian Notion Of Sin.

Where We Have Reasons For What We Believe, We Have No Need Of Faith; Where We Have No Reasons, We Have Lost Both Our Connection To The World And To One Another.

[i]t Is Difficult To Imagine A Set Of Beliefs More Suggestive Of Mental Illness Than Those That Lie At The Heart Of Many Of Our Religious Traditions.