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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Existence Human Survive War
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Essence Independent Mindset Thinking
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Belief God Religion Yourself
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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Goodness Moral Ordinary Religion Universe Yourself
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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Discrimination Human Ourselves Slave Togetherness
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
The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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Expectation God Species
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Boredom Forgiveness Oneself Sin
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Country Himself Wife
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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Discover God Myself Peace Return
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Divine Himself Oneself Right
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
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Children Creation Goodness Hell Image Woman

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?

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