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All I'm Arguing For Really Is That We Should Have A Conversation Where The Best Ideas Really Thrive, Where There's No Taboo Against Criticizing Bad Ideas, And Where Everyone Who Shows Up, In Order To Get Their Ideas Entertained, Has To Meet Some Obvious Burdens Of Intellectual Rigor And Self-criticism And Honesty-and When People Fail To Do That, We Are Free To Stop Listening To Them. What Religion Has Had Up Until This Moment Is A Different Set Of Rules That Apply Only To It, Which Is You Have To Respect My Religious Certainty Even Though I'm Telling You I Arrived At It Irrationally.

If Premarital Sex Is A Sin, Who Is The Victim?

Our World Is Fast Succumbing To The Activities Of Men And Women Who Would Stake The Future Of Our Species On Beliefs That Should Not Survive An Elementary School Education.

We Are Free To Burn The Qur’an Or Any Other Book, And To Criticize Muhammad Or Any Other Human Being. Let No One Forget It.

We Can Either Have A Twenty-first-century Conversation About Morality And The Human Well-being - A Conversation In Which We Avail Ourselves Of All Scientific Insights And Philosophical Arguments That Have Accumulated In The Last Two Thousand Years Of Human Discourse - Or We Can Confine Ourselves To A First-century Conversation As It Is Preserved In The Bible.