“The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — 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
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — 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
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument—in short, popular religion… — 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
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
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But we do believe in religion—at least for other people. It is a means of marketing hope, and of instilling ethical precepts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. — 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
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
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact… — 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
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