I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Christopher HitchensThe fragility of love is what is most at stake hereโhumanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timedโbut strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.
Christopher HitchensIn the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Christopher HitchensReligion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.
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