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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Christopher Hitchens

The finest fury is the most controlled.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Angry Control Fine
There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Faith Noise People Research Science White
Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Risk Self Love Thinking Yourself
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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Attitude Enough Myself Opinion Place Time Validation
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
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Demand Impossible Terrorism
Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Ideal Life Live Modeling Reality Risk Woman
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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Children Cruelty Kind Myself People Religion
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
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Human Pattern Seek Theory Willing
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person
The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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Believe Faith Freedom Oneself Position Reveal Truth
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
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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Available Important Quite Worth Yourself
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Each Other Faith Leaving Myself

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