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Christopher Hitchens Quotes about Religion

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In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

Christopher Hitchens

People, Religion, Wicked

Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Hitchens vs Blair”, p.10, Random House

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Christopher Hitchens

Giving Up, Believe, Religion

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Earth, Way

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Half, Chimpanzees

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Christopher Hitchens

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Christopher Hitchens

Religious, Children, Religion

Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.209, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

Christopher Hitchens

Laughing, Religion, Essentials

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Atheism, Important

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

Christopher Hitchens

Hatred, Religion, Atheism

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Christopher Hitchens

Atheist, Science, Religion

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

Christopher Hitchens

People, Religion, Degrees

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Use, Principles

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Christopher Hitchens

Sick, Religion, Atheism

"Connect The World" with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Christopher Hitchens

Motivational, Atheist, Religion

Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Christopher Hitchens

Atheist, Religion, Buried

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

Discovery, Korea, Religion

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Events, Horizon

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Firsts, Advantage

Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Divine, Warrants

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Atheism, Solipsism

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Logic, Forgotten

"Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Redemption, Surrender

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Moral, Persons

No child's behind left.

Christopher Hitchens

Children, Religion, Behinds

Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

Christopher Hitchens

Tyrants, Choices, Religion

Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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