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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.

Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
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
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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Civilization Desire Ground Myself View
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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Discover God Myself Peace Return
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
I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Form Love Myself Reason Respect Sex Sexuality
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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Available Important Quite Worth Yourself
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Faith Knowledge Wisdom
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Belief God Religion Yourself
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Hate Myself Religion World
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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Discrimination Human Ourselves Slave Togetherness
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Country Himself Wife

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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