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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

Christopher Hitchens

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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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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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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