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- “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
- “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens.
- “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?” ― Christopher Hitchens.
- “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.” ― Christopher Hitchens.
- Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch.
- 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.
- What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens. Inspirational, Wisdom, Atheist.
- A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. Christopher Hitchens.
Dec 15, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens Quotes - BrainyQuote. American - Author April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011. A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. Christopher Hitchens. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
- The Writer and Speaker
- The Traveler and His Vices
- The Antitheist
- The Relationships
He began his journalistic career as a correspondent for International Socialism while in Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, he continued his career as a correspondent by specializing in social sciences at The Times Higher Education Supplement, and later joined ITV’s Weekend World as a researcher. At 21, he left for the United States and made a f...
Hitchens travelled widely as a young man, mostly at his own expense. He travelled in the most surprising countries during his time, sometimes at the risk of arrest or physical attack, as he visited Czechoslovakia and Argentina during their anti-totalitarian struggles and Iran at the time when Saddam Hussein was being hunted by the United States gov...
You would expect that such a person raised in a Christian home and educated in a Christian boarding school will be profound in Christian faith. But it was said that even at an early age, he declined participating in communal worship. He dubbed himself as an antitheist, a word relating to someone who has no notion of a god. He wrote vigorous opinion...
Hitchens wanted to be called Christopher throughout his life, as was his mother’s wishes. He adored his mother, and grieved over her death – a suicide. He described it as a “howling, lacerating moment in [his] life.” Hitchens’ first marriage was with a Greek woman named Eleni Meleagrou who bore him two children, Alexander and Sophia. In 1991, he wa...
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Dec 16, 2011 · Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images. ABC News' Peter Madden reports: British American essayist and avowed atheist Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday, Dec. 15, at age 62, and he ...
Christopher Eric Hitchens ( 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an-English-American journalist and writer. He contributed to the New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five ...
Dec 15, 2021 · Christopher Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, 10 years ago today. He had been a columnist for The Atlantic for more than a decade, writing exclusively about books. (His reporting and other ...
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