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The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Christopher Hitchens

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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Charm Director Imagination Kind
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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Discover Inspirational Live Religion World
Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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Devil God People Permission Side View
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Essence Independent Mindset Thinking
I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
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Member Myself Party Science Struggle
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
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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Ability Authority Essential Oneself Religion
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Each Other Faith Leaving Myself
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
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
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Form Stupidity Superstition Yourself
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Body Book Case Stay
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Enough Life Live Time
So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
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

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