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Christopher Hitchens was a British-American author, journalist, and public intellectual. He was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1949. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University. After graduating, he worked as a journalist for The Times Higher Education Supplement, The New Statesman, and Vanity Fair. He was also a regular contributor to The Nation and Slate. Hitchens was a vocal critic of religion and a strong advocate for atheism. He wrote several books on these topics, including God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Hitchens died of esophageal cancer in 2011.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

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My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

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