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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

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I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 9th, 1967

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