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Penn Jillette’s “This I Believe” spot for NPR’s Morn­ing Edi­tion: There Is No God:

Believ­ing there’s no God stops me from being solip­sis­tic. I can read ideas from all dif­fer­ent peo­ple from all dif­fer­ent cul­tures. With­out God, we can agree on real­ity, and I can keep learn­ing where I’m wrong. We can all keep adjust­ing, so we can really com­mu­ni­cate. I don’t travel in cir­cles where peo­ple say, “I have faith, I believe this in my heart and noth­ing you can say or do can shake my faith.” That’s just a long-​​winded reli­gious way to say, “shut up,” or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscen­ity is less insult­ing than, “How I was brought up and my imag­i­nary friend means more to me than any­thing you can ever say or do.” So, believ­ing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that’s always fun. It means I’m learn­ing something.

Read the whole thing, and pre­serve it. It’s the kind of words we need more of, these days.