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

Quotes

• “Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these ...”
• “God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation ...”
• “The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-pr...”
• “Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not e...”
• “it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis...”
• “To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the...”
• “Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”
• “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
• “[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”