Despite all the debates I’ve seen and been a part of, it still amazes me when Christians trot out the particularly bad piece of logic that says atheists hate them (or, more often, God). What doesn’t surprise me is that Ricky Gervais has said something intelligent:
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Religion is like a cancer.
In that it eats away everything that was once healthy and worthwhile inside you, yes. And the difficulty in removing it completely.
The real trouble is that it’s contagious cancer.
As the late, great Christopher Hitchens said, “Religion poisons everything”