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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIslamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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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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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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 Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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