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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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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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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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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 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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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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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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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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