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Daniel Dennett

I am confident that those who ...

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because

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Daniel Dennett

I don't think there is any rel...

I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.

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Daniel Dennett

I even agree that the concept ...

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

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Daniel Dennett

It's a no win situation. It's ...

It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

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Daniel Dennett

Reasons for declaring belief i...

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

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Daniel Dennett

Religion is defined as social ...

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

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Daniel Dennett

The best thing about saying th...

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

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The kindly God who lovingly fa...

The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for something less concrete or abandoned altogether.

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Daniel Dennett

We have had plenty of atheist ...

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

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Daniel Dennett

You can't get through seminary...

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

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Daniel Dennett

Most people in the West who sa...

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

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Daniel Dennett

The task of the mind is to pro...

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.

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Daniel Dennett

There is no such thing as phil...

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

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Daniel Dennett

True, you don't have to be rel...

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

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Daniel Dennett

I look around the world and se...

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

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Daniel Dennett

A scholar is just a library's ...

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

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Daniel Dennett

Human consciousness is just ab...

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

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Daniel Dennett

There are no forces on this pl...

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

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Daniel Dennett

True, you don't have to be rel...

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

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Daniel Dennett

The idea that God is a worthy ...

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

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