What did Christopher Hitchens mean by: The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. - Christopher Hitchens Author · England Copy
+ Religion gets its morality from us. We don’t get our morality from religion. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Morality, Religion, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Morality, Purpose, Stolen, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Believe, Demand, Peaceful, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Sound, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Denial, Justification, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, Racism, Stupid, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Boredom, Tyranny, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. - William Gurnall Clergyman · England
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence… True Christians are made to be slaves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. - Jeremy Bentham Philosopher · England