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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.

Christopher Hitchens

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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Experiment Failure Hope Production Transformation
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Country Himself Wife
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
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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Devil God People Permission Side View
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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One Liner Religion Violence
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Demand Impossible Terrorism
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
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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Book Holy Human Togetherness
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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Agreement Man Religion Talk
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Important Microscope Offering Thankful
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
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Existence Friendship Value Yourself
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
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
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
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

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