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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSEven 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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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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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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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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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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