[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. - Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."

"it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists"

"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."