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“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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“If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: death, religion

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“We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: anthropocentrism, atheism, enlightenment, galileo, geocentricism, god, heliocentricism, nature, reason, religion, science, souls

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“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: 2008, barack-obama, bigotry, gender, hillary-clinton, identity-politics, race, racism, sexism, skin-colour, tribalism, united-states-elections-2008

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“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

tags: atheism, humor, life, religion

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