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“Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.”

Book:The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

This book compiles a diverse range of writings that explore the ideas and arguments of atheists and agnostics, providing a comprehensive overview of non-theistic thought. more

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was an English-American author, journalist, and social critic. He was known for his sharp wit and controversial views, particularly on religion and politics. Hitchens was a prominent figure in the public discourse of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. more

“By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?”

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Book:The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.”