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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
When was the last time that someone was criticized for not “respecting” another person’s unfounded beliefs about physics or history? The same rules should apply to ethical, spiritual, and religious beliefs as well. Credit goes to Christopher Hitchens for distilling, in a single phrase, a principle of discourse that could well arrest our slide toward the abyss: “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
—Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
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Wow, I need to write that down, and put it in my signature, or something. I love it!!!