Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Volt... - Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with."

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