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The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with r...more

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He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

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He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart...more

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It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us ...more

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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

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Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.