Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
It's called faith because it's not knowledge. - Christopher Hitchens
It's called faith because it's not knowledge.
- Christopher Hitchens
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s no… - Christopher Hitchens
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s no…
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women… - Christopher Hitchens
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women…
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. - Christopher Hitchens
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were con… - Christopher Hitchens
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were con…
What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radical… - Christopher Hitchens
What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radical…
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. - Christopher Hitchens
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then… - Christopher Hitchens
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then…
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