I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSJesus 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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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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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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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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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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.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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