“Religion is fossilized philosophy, in my view, but it is still philosophy; with most of the questions left out or claimed to be answered. ” — Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreReligion is … philosophy
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Christopher Hitchens
to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG
To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreThe opening paragraph of the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand seems apt for this collection
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Ayn Rand, Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG
This collection of writings … is a sin. It’s a sin of thought, and if the Church finds out about it, that it’s me, it will swing a wrecking ball my way
Read MoreThe word for that is CULTURE
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG, What to tell your children about god
The word for that… for having all the good things without all the superstition, is culture.
Read MoreHitchens – this ghastly entity; …this ghastly proposition
This is a doctrine that cannot be believed by anyone who has studied anything scientific, anything historical, anything archeological, anything paleological, anything biological. It can only be believed by someone who wants to be a plaything and a slave of a pitiless and totalitarian power. How glad we should be that the evidence for this […]
Read MoreWhy do so many people believe? Are they just stupid?
Hitchens answers a common question of believers: Q: Why do so many people believe? Are they just stupid? (a thoughtful answer) His answer is respectful and accurate, and as usual, pointed. We didn’t know why the heavens darkened and rain and hail fell. We didn’t know why there were earthquakes, floods. It was our first […]
Read MoreThanks to the telescope and the microscope
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes, Science and Religion
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers any explanation of anything important. Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreOrganized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive towards children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. The bible may, indeed does contain a warrant for human trafficking, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and […]
Read MoreMy greatest pet peeve is STUPIDITY
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes
My greatest pet peeve is STUPIDITY – especially in its worst forms of bigotry and superstition. On every side, faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all more stupid. …the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations. […]
Read MoreWe owe a huge debt to Galileo
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge. Christopher Hitchens
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