The violence in the Bible is appalling.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTake the risk of thinking for yourself.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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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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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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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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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 man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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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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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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 the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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