RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
January 10, 2016 at 12:20 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2016 at 1:32 am by ApeNotKillApe.)
Hitchens speaking with Christian radio presenter Paul Edwards
"I have studied what theists do when they think they have power to get away with it. With your religion in particular. I mean I don't have to ask what things would be like if you had more power. Fortunately your religion is in terminal decline. No one is going to forget what things were like when people like you were in charge. Slavery, ignorance, superstition, torture; it's not going to be forgotten, you know."
"I don't understand why you're treating me with such hostility."
"Well I don't mind if you understand it or not, I'm talking to your listeners as well."
"Well my listeners fully understand that Jesus said to love your enemies and--"
"There's another immoral injunction. Go love your own enemies, don't be loving mine, my enemies are the theocratic fascists; I don't love them, I want to destroy them. You go and love them. Lot's of luck!"
"I have studied what theists do when they think they have power to get away with it. With your religion in particular. I mean I don't have to ask what things would be like if you had more power. Fortunately your religion is in terminal decline. No one is going to forget what things were like when people like you were in charge. Slavery, ignorance, superstition, torture; it's not going to be forgotten, you know."
"I don't understand why you're treating me with such hostility."
"Well I don't mind if you understand it or not, I'm talking to your listeners as well."
"Well my listeners fully understand that Jesus said to love your enemies and--"
"There's another immoral injunction. Go love your own enemies, don't be loving mine, my enemies are the theocratic fascists; I don't love them, I want to destroy them. You go and love them. Lot's of luck!"
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