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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Christopher Hitchens

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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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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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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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