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Many Scientists Have Been Drawn To Buddhism Out Of A Sense That The Western Tradition Has Delivered An Impoverished Conception Of Basic, Human Sanity. In The West, If You Speak To Yourself Out Loud All Day Long, You Are Considered Crazy. But Speaking To Yourself Silently - Thinking Incessantly - Is Considered Perfectly Normal.

The Truth That We Must Finally Confront Is That Islam Contains Specific Notions Of Martyrdom And Jihad That Fully Explain The Character Of Muslim Violence.

Missionaries In The Developing World Waste A Lot Of Time And Money (not To Mention The Goodwill Of Non-christians) Proselytizing To The Needy. . . . While Missionaries Do Many Noble Things At Great Risk To Themselves, Their Dogmatism Still Spreads Ignorance And Death. By Contrast, Volunteers For Secular Organizations . . . Do Not Waste . . . Time Telling People About The Virgin Birth Of Jesus. Nor Do They Tell People In Sub-saharan Africa - Where Nearly Four Million People Die From Aids Every Year - That Condom Use Is Sinful.

You Are Not Controlling The Storm, And You Are Not Lost In It. You Are The Storm.

The Core Of Science Is Not A Mathematical Modeling--it Is Intellectual Honesty. It Is A Willingness To Have Our Certainties About The World Constrained By Good Evidence And Good Argument.