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Hitchens Zone - Great Atheism Quotes. Mark Twain "There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so. " "Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million. " "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

" "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. " “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” Blaise Pascal "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. " Isaac Asimov "Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. " "Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

" Christopher Hitchens Compilation - Christopher Hitchens - Youtube - JediJesseS. The Opposite of Debunking Kyle Hill - JREF 16 If we want people to understand the full range of skepticism we have to also stress the affirmatives. We need to live up to the charge of promoting science and critical thinking Miracle buster: Why I traced holy water... Jon White - New Scientist 29 Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the "holy" water dripping from a statue of Christ came from a leaky drain Book Excerpt: Why We Blame God for Our... Matthew Hutson - Wired 7 "If there's no obvious responsible party, we find a scapegoat. Why smart people are stupid Jonah Lehrer - The New Yorker While philosophers, economists, and social scientists had assumed for centuries that human beings are rational agents—reason was our Promethean gift—Kahneman, the late Amos Tversky, and others demonstrated that we’re not nearly as rational as we like to believe.

One in seven thinks end of world is... Chris Michaud - Reuters How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith... Penn Disagrees with Christopher Hitchens - Hitch 22 - ... Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox. The Evil Character of the Christian God (Christopher Hitchens) Chrisopher Hitches' Epic Opening Statement @IQ² Debate Part 1. Dawkins praises Hitchens in convention for being an atheist even while facing death. By: Eryn SunChristian Post Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 6:47 (EST) Reappearing in the public eye after months of absence, the much weakened and gaunt Hitchens, who currently suffers from esophageal cancer, accepted the “Richard Dawkins Freethinker of the Year” award over the past weekend in Houston at the annual convention of the Atheist Alliance of America and Texas Freethought. The 62-year-old author, who had at one point temporarily lost his voice due to his sickness, was able to stand up and speak again before the young crowd of atheists, countering in his usual manner the “spread of delusion” and championing “freedom of inquiry.”

Receiving the award directly from Dawkins, fellow atheist and member of the “Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse,” Hitchens felt honored but a little embarrassed to be receiving the award, he previously told The New York Times. “I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do,” he shared. “I’m not sure we need to be honored. The effectiveness of waterboarding (form of torture) Hitch. The Intelligence² Debate - Christopher Hitchens (Unedited) Christopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62 - Talk Radio 860 AM WGUL. HZ Video - Christopher Hitchens War On Christmas - Scarborough Country Amazing Meeting.

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