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Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Christopher Hitchens
Religious, Roots, Evil
Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

Christopher Hitchens
Evil, Politics, Crime
"Kim Jong-il's Willing Accomplices" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. May 24, 2010.

Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the end it destroys itself, it's so committed to evil and it's so committed to hatred and cruelty that it becomes suicidal. My definition of it is the surplus value that's generated by totalitarianism. It means you do more violence, more cruelty than you absolutely have to to stay in power.

Christopher Hitchens
Suicidal, Mean, Evil
Source: www.abc.net.au

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.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Evil, Mad
Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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