Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to deny the same to others
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to deny the same to others — at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt. Christians themselves …should not.
Christopher Hitchens says that religion “should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.” Hitchens is quick to point out of course that Christians themselves should not be treated this way; it’s Christianity he hates. (which is akin to “supporting the troops” — but not the war.) Hitchens leaves no room for doubt as to his […]
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG, Science and Religion
At first it was argued that God put the fossil bones in the earth so people’s faith could be tested. Nice try; didn’t last long. Then the various attempts that go on to still try and ban the good news of evolution.
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It will not do to say, in reply to this, that the lord moves in mysterious ways. Those who dare to claim to be his understudies and votaries and interpreters must either accept the cruelty and the chaos or disown it: they cannot pick and choose between the warmly benign and the frigidly indifferent.
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG, How religion poisons everything
Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder, January 26, 2009 “…I can assert; i can ask you to consider that the person in charge of this is … very incompetent, very tinkering, very capricious, or very very cruel. I think that our moralities are innate, our ethics are innate to us, as […]
Read MoreHitchens said “I’m fine with religion…”
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG
Hitchens is fine with people having religion, As long as you don’t want your religion taught to my children in school, given a government subsidy, or imposed on me by violence, …you are fine by me. This is a statement that EVERYONE should agree with, yet some sects obviously do not.
Read MoreHitchens’ Ten Commandments are a better code to live by
…exerpt from Vanity Fair article : I am trying my best not to view things through a smug later prism. Only the Almighty can scan matters sub specie aeternitatis: from the viewpoint of eternity. One must also avoid cultural and historical relativism: there’s no point in retroactively ordering the Children of Israel to develop a germ […]
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG, Things that make you go hmmmmm.
today during church (while in church) i read a few pieces from ARGUABLY(christopher hitchens’ collection of articles) including one about water boarding and his personal experience with it. I agree with the article’s ultimate point. (And I think that George W. Bush was a sad president; i found him misinformed and uninformed, and totally in […]
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