There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSSo there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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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.
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To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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