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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

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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Congratulation Learning Mindset Myself Open Tolerance
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
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Appreciation Favorite Irony Virtue
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
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
I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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Afraid Death Myself Quite Strong
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
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Discover Escape God Greatness Oneself
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Earth Easy Establishment God Representation Way
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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Around Conscious Fake Philosophy Question Way
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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Astronomy End Philosophy Place Religion
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Hate Myself Religion World
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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Mindset People Rejection Thinking Time
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 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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God Instruction Planet Time Wasted Time Yourself

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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