Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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 Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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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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So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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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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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Even 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.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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