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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.

Christopher Hitchens

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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Expectation God Species
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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Death Devil Enemy Myself Sympathy Time
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
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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God Instruction Man Prayer Right Thinking Yourself
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
To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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Experience Faith Reach Yourself
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Enough Life Live Time
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Boredom Forgiveness Oneself Sin
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
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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Evidence Faith Give Up Ourselves Poison Reason Religion Respect
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
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
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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Election Oneself People Run Time
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Choice Freedom Human Willing
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person

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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