“Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side?”
"Is Christianity the Problem?", debate with Dinesh D'Souza, 22/10/2007. <br class="br">2000s, 2007 <br class="br">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
“If this was the plan - was it made by someone who likes us?”
"Does Religion Poison Everything?", Festival of Dangerous Ideas, October 2009. <br class="br">2000s, 2009 <br class="br">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.”
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
“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)
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”
[Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, 2004, 1560255803, 2005298401, 56991027, 24964445M]
2000s, 2004
“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)