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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.

Christopher Hitchens

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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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Allow Children Different Quite Reason Religious World
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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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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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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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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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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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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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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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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