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Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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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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(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
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Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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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.
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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
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There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.
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In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
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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 not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self a celestial North Korea.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told.
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The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for peace through strength has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
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