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• For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

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  Believe, School, Differences

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• When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

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  May, Spinoza, Woody

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

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  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

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  Teaching, Taken, Enemy

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• There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.

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  Atheist, Regret, Reflection

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

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  Kissing, Numbers, Lines

  "Charlie Hebdo, Hate Speech and Christopher Hitchens" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. January 14, 2015.

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

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  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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• She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

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  Directors, Kind, Imagine

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• Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

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  Running, Philosophy, Astrology

  "God is not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens, May 1, 2007.

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• If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

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  Long, Important, Principles

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

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  Inspiring, Friends, Existence

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• I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

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  Sex, Lgbt, Gay Pride

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• A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

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  Years, Old Friends, Lessons

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.

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  Christian, Meaningful, Jesus

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.80, Melville House

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• Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

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  Trying, Want, Newspapers

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• Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

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  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan, isn't it? With mass destruction, pitiless extermination, annihilation going on all the time. And all of this set in motion on a scale that’s absolutely beyond our imagination, in order that the pope can tell people not to jerk off.

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  Atheist, Mass Destruction, Order

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• In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

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  Atheist, Order, Holocaust

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• The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

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  Unforgivable Sin, Sin, Boring

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• I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

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  Faithful, Church, Mosques

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

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  Strong, Would Be, Alive

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". Newsnight interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

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• The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

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  Civilization, Taming, Chores

  "Free Exercise of Religion? No, Thanks" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. September 6, 2010.

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• If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

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  Mean, Care, Charm

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• Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)

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  Jobs, Believe, Punishment

  "What Sharon Did" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

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  Thinking, Dimensions, World

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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