Schneewittchen on Nostr: Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is ...
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.
It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
Christopher Hitchens
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2026-04-08 14:58:14 UTCEvent JSON
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