The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSEndless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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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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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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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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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.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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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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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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