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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSSince it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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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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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued 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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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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