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• Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.

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  Running, Science, Important

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.268, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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  Atheist, Vintage, Doubt

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

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  Enemy, Devil, Renounce

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.

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  Principles, Brooklyn, Jerusalem

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• God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

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  God, Men, Civilization

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• Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

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  Sick, Religion, Atheism

  "Connect The World" with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Christianity

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

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  Determined, Enough, Please

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

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  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

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  Real, Party, Thinking

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5207, NYU Press

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• If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

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  Bad Day, Islam, Word Of God

  Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 21, No. 4, Fall 2001.

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• The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

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  Atheist, Thinking, May

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• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

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  Atheist, Writing, Hands

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• Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

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  Book, Writing, Doe

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• People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.

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  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Take the risk of thinking for yourself

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  Thinking, Risk, Greatest Atheist

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• MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

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  Mother, Suffering, Empowerment

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

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  Book, Together, Holy

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• Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

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  People, World, Want

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.167, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

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  Rights, Rocks, Caves

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• I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

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  Light, Lovely, Ends

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• Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.

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  Children, Thinking, Order

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

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  Running, People, Office

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

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  Party, Struggle, Stupidity

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

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  Daughter, Running, Atheist

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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