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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThere’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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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.’
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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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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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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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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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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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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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