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Christopher Hitchens on Atheism

1949–2011 England

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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Mortality (2012)

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has — from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas

Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in "After Strange Gods".

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.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007)

Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.

Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Hitchens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.