Christianity Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“We can call the attempt to refute theism by displaying the continuity of belief in God with primitive delusions the method of Anthropological intimidation.”

— Edwyn Bevan

“The challenge facing atheists is how to reverse the process of religious colonization: how to separate ideas and rituals from the religious institutions which…

— Alain de Botton

“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not…

— Benjamin Disraeli

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Secular society has been unfairly impoverished by the loss of an array of practices and themes which atheists typically find it impossible to live…

— Alain de Botton

“There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care.…

— Leviak B. Kelly

“That so many of us are still dying on account of ancient myths is as bewildering as it is horrible and our own attachment…

— Sam Harris

“I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities or any teaching careers, besmirched their…

— Anonymous

“Our cultural debt to the idolatry of pagan Egypt was largely expunged from history by Christian revisionists.”

— Philip Meggs

Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“In a world beset by fundamentalists of both believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious faith with…

— Alain de Botton