From my favorite intellectual ever; Christopher Hitchens.
"We have better explanations for the origins both of our cosmos and our species now, so much better so in fact, that had they been available to begin with religion would never have taken root"
"I am born under a celestial dictatorship which i could have had any hand in choosing, i don't put myself under it's government. I am told it can watch me when i sleep, i am told that it can convict me of... Thought crime, for what i think, i may be convicted and condemned, and that if i commit a right action it is only to evade a punishment and if commit a wrong action i'm going to be caught up not just with punishment in life but even after i'm dead"
"Terrible as the old testament gods are, they don't promise to punish the dead"
"We have better explanations for the origins both of our cosmos and our species now, so much better so in fact, that had they been available to begin with religion would never have taken root"
"I am born under a celestial dictatorship which i could have had any hand in choosing, i don't put myself under it's government. I am told it can watch me when i sleep, i am told that it can convict me of... Thought crime, for what i think, i may be convicted and condemned, and that if i commit a right action it is only to evade a punishment and if commit a wrong action i'm going to be caught up not just with punishment in life but even after i'm dead"
"Terrible as the old testament gods are, they don't promise to punish the dead"
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