Christopher Hitchens. I recommend his book, "god is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything".

Christopher Hitchens

The following are quotes by Hitchens:

“Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life—except religion. Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds? Atheism strikes me as morally superior, as well as intellectually superior, to religion. Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. Does this leave us shorn of hope? Not a bit of it. Atheism, and the related conviction that we have just one life to live, is the only sure way to regard all our fellow creatures as brothers and sisters. Even the compromise of agnosticism is better than faith. It minimizes the totalitarian temptation, the witless worship of the absolute and the surrender of reason.”
— Christopher Hitchens (1982), “The Lord and the Intellectuals” [5]

“What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
— Christopher Hitchens (2003) (Ѻ)

“You find me a state or society that threw off theocracy and threw off religion and said we adopt the teachings of Lucretius and Democritus and Galileo and Spinozaand Darwin and Russell and Jefferson and Thomas Paine, and we make those what we teach our children. We make that scientific and rational humanism our teaching. You find me that state, that did that, and fell into tyranny, and slavery, and famine, and torture, and then we’ll be on a level playing field.”
— Christopher Hitchens (2008), “Debate with Peter Hitchens on Iraq War and Religion” (Ѻ), Grand Valley State University, Apr 3

“I can’t find a seconder usually when I propose this, but I don’t care. I don’t need a seconder. My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, anytime. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
— Christopher Hitchens (c.2008) (Ѻ)

“Picture if you will the following: that it is conclusively demonstrated that the figures of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Joseph Smith, all the other ‘impostors’, are nothing more than that, namely legendary, mythical, for fraudulent figures.”
— Christopher Hitchens (c.2009) (Ѻ)

“There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.”
— Christopher Hitchens (c.2009) (Ѻ)

“All religions are wrong in the same way, in that they privilege faith over reason, but they’re not all equally bad in the same way all the time. I mean, if I had been writing in the 1930s, I might certainly have said that the Catholic religion was the most dangerous religion in the world, because of its open alliance with fascism and anti-Semitism, the damage from that our culture has never recovered and never will. But at the moment, it is very clear to me that the most toxic form that religion takes is the Islamic form and the horrible idea of wanting to end up with Sharia law, with a religion governed state, a state of religious law, and that the best means of getting there is jihad or holy war, that Muslims have a special right to feel aggrieved enough to demand this, I think, is obscene, absolute wickedness, and I think their religion is nonsense—in its entirety. God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia, and he’s able to write this down perfectly, and it contains the answers to all—don’t waste my time, it’s bullshit!”
— Christopher Hitchens (2010), response (Ѻ) to Sufi Muslim on why he choose the literal negation of the phrase “Allah hu Akbar” for the title of his book God is Not Great, Mar 23; favorite Angela Jabari Hitchens quote (2017)