- Breaking the Spell
- by Daniel Dennett
"The Stupidity of Dignity" / 13 May 2008
- [syndicated|from secularoutpost.blogspot.com]
Steven Pinker has a very good essay on The New Republic online, "The Stupidity of Dignity." It examines the uselessness of the concept of dignity in bioethics, particularly the Catholic-inflected "theocon" version of bioethics that has become very influential in the US government.
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—Thomas Jefferson
No longer are we satisfied with the fiction of things. We want them in their full reality.
—Mikhail Bakunin
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
—Aleister Crowley
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—Friedrich Nietzsche
Books
- The Ghost in the Universe
- by Taner Edis
- The Demon-Haunted World
- by Carl Sagan
- The God Delusion
- by Richard Dawkins