"Religion is, after all, implicitly arrogant. It assumes it knows the truth, that its followers are saved and that the rest of us are deluded and even damned. Are we really going to sit by as faith movements demand “tolerance” for such views, and try to make us to submit to their wills? Whether religion offers solace to some isn’t the issue. The submission and control it seeks to impose is. Toss out the Supreme Being and we’re left with one set of humans striving to dominate another, and justifying themselves with ideology based on nothing but myth." - Jeffrey Tayler
Alan Lightman in The Atlantic: Dualism or not?
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Alan Lightman a physicist best known for his writing about science, most
famously his 1992 novel Einstein’s Dreams. At present he’s a “professor of
the pra...
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