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Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

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God Is Not Great

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Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007, ch. 5.

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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007, ch. 10.

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The secular State is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

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Hitchens, Christopher: "Ireland: 'We Ourselves': Suffering, Faith and Redemption." Critical Quarterly, Spring 1998.

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Hitchens, Christopher. "Ireland." Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso, 2000, pt. 1.

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Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the "transcendent" and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mamals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

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Hitchens, Christopher. Letters to a Young Contrarian. Art of Mentoring. Basic Books, 2001, envoi.

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