It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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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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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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.
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