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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

Christopher Hitchens

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
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Choice Freedom Human Willing
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Existence High Principle
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
The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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Believe Faith Freedom Oneself Position Reveal Truth
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
I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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Atheist Harmful Hold Maintain Myself Positive Religion Truth
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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Goodness Moral Ordinary Religion Universe Yourself
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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Correct Essence Quite Rule True
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Country Day Escape Present
There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Faith Noise People Research Science White
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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Expectation God Species
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value 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
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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Allow Children Different Quite Reason Religious World

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

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