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Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
Faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious people give to one another to believe things strongly without evidence.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children to fear and demonize other human beings on the basis of religious faith.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)