“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud, The Future… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At the time, the United States had an attorney general named John Ashcroft, who had stated that America had “no king but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world… Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The curse of Abraham continues to poison Hebron, but the religious warrant for blood sacrifice poisons our entire civilization.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
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