Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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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.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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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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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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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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