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Old 06-04-2013, 03:43 PM
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Transcribed from this talk is an absolute gem:
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Originally Posted by C. E. Hitchens
Let me just tell you something.

For hundreds and thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been - in most places - impossible to have. Or Sam and I would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-faced, ingratiating way, because it's had to give so much ground, and because we know so much more.

But you've no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had god on it's side.
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