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

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything · 2007

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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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