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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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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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There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.
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The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.
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I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
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I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
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Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
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The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
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Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.
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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
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I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
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