Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) is an author and journalist. His books include God is not Great and The Missionary Position. Hitchens became an American citizen on the 13th of April 2007. His most recent book is Hitch-22: A Memoir. Christopher Hitchens is one of the most famous atheists in history.
Christopher Hitchens Quotes
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
“Religious exhortation and telling people, telling children, that if they don’t do the right thing, they’ll go to terrifying punishments or unbelievable rewards, that’s making a living out of lying to children. That’s what the priesthood do. And if all they did was lie to the children, it would be bad enough. But they rape them and torture them and then hope we’ll call it ‘abuse’.”
“Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.”
“If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?”
“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell, unless it is the sorely limited mind that has failed to describe heaven — except as a place of either worldly comfort, eternal tedium, or (as Tertullian thought) continual relish in the torture of others.”
