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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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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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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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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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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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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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