“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — 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
“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You allege some considerations in favor of a Deity from the universality of a belief in his existence. The superstitions of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — 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 wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Image