From an atheist character in the new Netflix show, "Orange is the new Black". I wish I could articulate my viewpoints this well but then I'm not a Hollywood writer with years of experience who goes through who knows how many rewrites to get this:
I can’t pretend to believe in something I don’t, and I don’t [believe in this]… I believe in science. I believe in evolution. I believe in Nate Silver, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Christopher Hitchens, although I do admit he could be kind of an asshole. I cannot get behind some Supreme Being who weighs in on the Tony awards while a million people get whacked by machetes. I don’t believe a billion Indians are going to hell. I don’t think that we get cancer to learn life lessons. And I don’t believe people die young because God needs another angel. I think it’s just bullshit. And on some level, I think we all know that…
I disagree about Hitchens. He was always more or less polite to those who were the same to him. But if they weren't, he could use words like weapons.
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