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“Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side?”

Christopher Hitchens

"Is Christianity the Problem?", debate with Dinesh D'Souza, 22/10/2007.
2000s, 2007
Context: Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? Who says they have God with them? Is there any evil that they forbid themselves to do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeHsCPayXM?t=37m36s

God

“If this was the plan - was it made by someone who likes us?”

Christopher Hitchens

"Does Religion Poison Everything?", Festival of Dangerous Ideas, October 2009.
2000s, 2009
Context: If this was the plan - was it made by someone who likes us? And if so, why have 99.9% of all the other species that have ever been created already died out? And part of what plan was that?; If it is a plan or a design, the planner must be either very capricious - really toying with his creation; and/or very clumsy, very tinkering and fantastically wasteful - throw away 99.9% of what you've made; or very cruel and very callous; or just perhaps very indifferent; or some combination of all the above. And so it's no good saying that He moves in mysterious ways, or that He has purposes that are opaque to us, because even that kind of evasion has to make itself predicate on the assumption that the person saying this knows more than I do about the supernatural, and I haven't yet met anyone who does have a private line to the creator, of the sort that would be required even to speculate about it. In other words, I haven't met anyone, in holy orders or out of it, who isn't also a primate. And neither have you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvJf9wTQXo

“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”

Christopher Hitchens
Love , God , World

“The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.”

Christopher Hitchens

“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”

Christopher Hitchens
Country

“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

I.
Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)

Question

“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.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Women , Hostility , Children , Religion

“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

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Faith

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

God , Problem

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Boy

“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: Mortality

God , Thinking

“The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Women , Beauty

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking , Selfishness

“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”

Christopher Hitchens
Soul , Literature

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

Christopher Hitchens

[Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, 2004, 1560255803, 2005298401, 56991027, 24964445M]
2000s, 2004

“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Thinking

“Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Courage , Thinking , Sense

“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: 2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)

Faith , Time