How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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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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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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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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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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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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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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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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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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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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