Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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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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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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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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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.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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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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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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