A great thinker has passed. Some of his better thoughts:
ON RELIGION: “ To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
ON HYPOCRITES: “Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
ON THE AMERICAN LEFT: “One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.” —Frontpagemag.com, 2004
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