We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The pluralism of religion is attributable to the fact that man created God and not the other way around. If you accept… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal… — 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
“Every church became a theatre, where orators, instead of church teachers, harangued, caring not to instruct the people, but striving to attract… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that… — 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
“The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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
“Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“By all means let us agree that we are pattern-seeking mammals and that, owing to our restless intelligence and inquisitiveness, we will… — 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
I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I think we are entitled to at least three provisional conclusions. The first is that religion and the churches are manufactured, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was… — 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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