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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Christopher Hitchens

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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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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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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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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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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.
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