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The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.
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Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
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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.
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I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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