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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

Christopher Hitchens

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Hate Myself Religion World
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
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
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human 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
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Happiness Risk Thinking Truth Way Yourself
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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One Liner Religion Violence
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
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
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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Appearance Father Heaven Herself Repeat
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
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Belief God Religion Yourself
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Children Creation Goodness Hell Image Woman
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Earth Easy Establishment God Representation Way
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Essence Independent Mindset Thinking

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