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The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
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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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It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of Me Decade possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.
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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
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I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.
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In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
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People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
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Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.
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Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
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The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.
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It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.
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The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
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