Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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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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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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