The violence in the Bible is appalling.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSEver since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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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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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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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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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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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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