Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSReagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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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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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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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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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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