Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: ethics-and-moral-philosophy
I think that anti-Jewish prejudice is an unfailing sign of a sick and disordered person ... It's a horrible, conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectual, mean spirited, eventually lethal piece of bigotry.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: antisemitism
Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence
Christopher HitchensTake the risk of thinking for yourself,much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
Christopher HitchensOwners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: cats food dogs god religion atheism water affection pets shelter
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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: humor power tyranny totalitarianism
And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists).
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: liberalism superstition racism left
In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, "no child's behind left.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: child-rape
[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: belief
It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory
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