Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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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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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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