Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSSkepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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