The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIn the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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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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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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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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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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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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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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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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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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