If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIslamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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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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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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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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