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The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

— Pat Condell

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Being called closed-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle.

'Faith' is merely fear dressed up as virtue.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula disapproves of sunlight.

Black privilege means that you get to take the knee, raise a fist, and smear millions of decent English people as racists.

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