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As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, b
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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To understand the truth of any object, event, or idea, we must uncover its constitutive relations—the forces, processes, and structures that made it what it is.
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― Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
― Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
