More quotes by Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire 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."
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"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, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Read More
"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, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Read More
"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."
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"God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization."
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