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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

Christopher Hitchens

To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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Experience Faith Reach Yourself
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Coward Creation Religion Word
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Disagreement Risk Sacrifice Title
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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God Instruction Planet Time Wasted Time Yourself
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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Election Oneself People Run Time
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Ideal Life Live Modeling Reality Risk Woman
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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Goodness Moral Ordinary Religion Universe Yourself
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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Conclusion Religion Right Wrong
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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Discrimination Human Ourselves Slave Togetherness
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Body Book Case Stay
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Humor Possible Thinking Tragedy
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Key Language Learning Magic Myself Poetry
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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Country Day Escape Present
The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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Believe Faith Freedom Oneself Position Reveal Truth

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