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As An Atheist, I Am Angry That We Live In A Society In Which The Plain Truth Cannot Be Spoken Without Offending 90% Of The Population.

The Perpetrators Of The Inquisition - The Torturers, Informers, And Those Who Commanded Their Actions - Were Ecclesiastics Of One Rank Or Another. They Were Men Of God - Popes, Bishops, Friars, And Priests.

Faith Enables Many Of Us To Endure Life's Difficulties With An Equanimity That Would Be Scarcely Conceivable In A World Lit Only By Reason.

My Concern With Religion Is That It Allows Us By The Millions To Believe What Only Lunatics Or Idiots Could Believe On Their Own. That's Not To Say That All Religious People Are Lunatics Or Idiots. It's Anything But That.

Lying Is, Almost By Definition, A Refusal To Cooperate With Others. It Condenses A Lack Of Trust And Trustworthiness Into A Single Act. It Is Both A Failure Of Understanding And An Unwillingness To Be Understood. To Lie Is To Recoil From Relationship.