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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.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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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Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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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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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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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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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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