Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.
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.
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 can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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