It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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 one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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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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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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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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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 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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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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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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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