The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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The only thing that guarantees an openended collaboration among human beings the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly openended is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.
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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 seventytwo virgins in Paradise.
- Sam Harris