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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Existence High Principle
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
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
Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Islam Murder Radical Reaction World
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Definition Management Oneself Race
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Divine Himself Oneself Right
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
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
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Choice Freedom Human Willing
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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Children Cruelty Kind Myself People Religion
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Devil God People Permission Side View
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Image Pathetic Religion
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
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Enough Myself Selfish Thinking Touch
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Happiness Risk Thinking Truth Way Yourself

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