Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pik... - 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."

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists"

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."