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Christopher Hitchens on Religion

1949–2011 England

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The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

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

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on.

God is not Great (2007)

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

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