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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.

Christopher Hitchens

Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Islam Murder Radical Reaction World
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
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
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
The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Disagreement Risk Sacrifice Title
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
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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Congratulation Learning Mindset Myself Open Tolerance
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Body Book Case Stay
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
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Earth Easy Establishment God Representation Way
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
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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Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
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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Country Day Escape Present
If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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Bad Capital Dangerous Global Thinking Yourself
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself

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