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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

Christopher Hitchens

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Humor Possible Thinking Tragedy
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.
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Around Conscious Fake Philosophy Question Way
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Choice Freedom Human Willing
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
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
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
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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Discover Escape God Greatness Oneself
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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Experiment Failure Hope Production Transformation
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human Religion
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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Evidence Faith Give Up Ourselves Poison Reason Religion Respect
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
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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Acceptance Divine Father Himself Record Truth
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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Death People Prayer See Yourself
So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Bad Day God Word
I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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Information Journalism Myself News People Thinking

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