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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.

Christopher Hitchens

I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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Atheist Harmful Hold Maintain Myself Positive Religion Truth
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
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Enough Goodness Government Myself Religion
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
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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Allow Children Different Quite Reason Religious World
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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Mindset People Rejection Thinking Time
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Divine Himself Oneself Right
To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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Experience Faith Reach 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
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
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
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Key Language Learning Magic Myself Poetry
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Boredom Forgiveness Oneself Sin
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
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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Image Pathetic Religion

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