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To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Christopher Hitchens

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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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