| Genres : | Non-Fiction , Science |
| Published By : | Houghton Mifflin Co. |
| Published On : | Oct 18, 2006 |
| ISBN : | 0618680004 (ISBN13: 9780618680009) |
| Format : | Hardcover |
| Language : | English |
| No. of pages : | 374 |
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
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“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
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“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
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“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”
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