Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[ Curb your enthusiasm, 2016]

Michael Ruse
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  4. Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters. - Aberjhani

  5. It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. - Criss Jami

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  2. Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion -- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex- Christian, but I must admit that in...

  3. So, if someone like Richard Dawkins indignantly protests that his passion about these sorts of things -- the passion that drives the "God Delusion" -- should not be taken as a religious passion, I am happy to accept that. I do nevertheless think that often...

  4. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

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