Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchenswas an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. He contributed to 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 collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature, and religion. A staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, his confrontational style of debate made him...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
I have personal knowledge that Mr. Blumenthal recounted to other people in the journalistic community the same story about Monica Lewinsky that he told to me and Carol Blue.
The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.
We had to do this because our governments would not make the elemental statement that we stand with Denmark against this atrocious campaign of lies and hatred and violence.