In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.
Christopher HitchensThe thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.
Christopher HitchensThe noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
Christopher HitchensReligion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.
Christopher HitchensNo moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
Christopher Hitchens