The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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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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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.
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I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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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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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 faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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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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In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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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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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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