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The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Christopher Hitchens

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Existence Human Survive War
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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Offend Right
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Children Creation Goodness Hell Image Woman
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Human Pattern Seek Theory Willing
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Humor Possible Thinking Tragedy
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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Conclusion Religion Right Wrong
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
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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History Oneself Religion Small
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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Faith Noise People Research Science White
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Country Day Escape Present
Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Risk Self Love Thinking Yourself
The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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Expectation God Species
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Key Language Learning Magic Myself Poetry
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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Agreement Man Religion Talk

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