One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSShe’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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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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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
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