Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”
“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. — Hitchens 3:16”
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way”
“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”
“If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
“Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody — not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms — had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.”
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