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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.

Christopher Hitchens

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Faith Noise People Research Science White
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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End Limitation Praise
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Each Other Faith Leaving Myself
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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Politics Religious Secularism Simplicity Truth
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
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Enough Goodness Government Myself Religion
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Form Stupidity Superstition Yourself
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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Around Conscious Fake Philosophy Question Way
So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Existence High Principle
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human Religion
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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Available Important Quite Worth Yourself
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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Evidence Faith Give Up Ourselves Poison Reason Religion Respect
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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Form Love Myself Reason Respect Sex Sexuality
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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Civilization Desire Ground Myself View
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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Image Pathetic Religion
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time

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