Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Quotes
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
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[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.
How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?