It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSMy 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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There’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.
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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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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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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