Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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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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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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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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