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If you think that Christianity is the most direct and undefiled expression of love and compassion the world has ever seen, you do not know much about the world's other religions. Take the religion of Jainism as one example. The Jains preach a doctrine of utter non-violence. While the Jains believe many improbable things about the universe, they do not believe the sorts of things that lit the fires of the Inquisition. You probably think the Inquisition was a perversion of the "true" spirit of Christianity. Perhaps it was. The problem, however, is that the teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured - Augustine, or killed outright - Aquinas. Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. You are, of course, free to interpret the Bible differently - though isn't it amazing that you have succeeded in discerning the true teachings of Christianity, while the most influential thinkers in the history of your faith failed?

Letter to a Christian Nation - 2006.

Atheism, Religion

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83% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. 11% disbelieve. 6% don’t know.

Letter to a Christian Nation - 2006.

Atheism, Religion

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God love Me, don't ya know? He cured me of my eczema. He makes me feel so good while singing in church. And just when we had given up hope, he found a banker who was willing to reduce my mother's mortgage.

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65% of Americans believe in the literal existence of Satan. 73% believe in Hell.

Letter to a Christian Nation - 2006.

Atheism, Religion

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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values - 2010.

Atheism, Religion

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Given all that this god of yours does not accomplish in the lives of others, given the misery that is being imposed on some helpless child at this instant, this kind of faith is obscene. To think in this way is to fail to reason honestly, or to care sufficiently in the suffering of other human beings.

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It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion - to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources - is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.

Letter to a Christian Nation - 2006.

Atheism, Religion

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87% of Americans say they “never doubt the existence of God.

Letter to a Christian Nation - 2006.

Atheism, Religion

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We live in a country in which a person cannot get elected President if he openly doubts the existence of heaven and hell. In our next Presedential election, an actor who reads his bible would almost certainly defeat a rocket scientist who does not. Could there be any clearer indication that we are allowing unreason and otherworldliness to govern our affairs?

The End of Faith - 2004

Politics, Religion, Patriotism

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In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise. Western secularists, liberals, and moderates have been very slow to understand this. The cause of their confusion is simple: they don’t know what is like to really believe in God.

Letter to a Christian Nation - 2006.

Atheism, Religion

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