“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.”
Christopher Hitchens
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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