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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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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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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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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