Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIn 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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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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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 learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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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 violence in the Bible is appalling.
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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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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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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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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