Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.16, Hachette UK

• Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

• What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, What If, Factions

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Ignorance, Sacrifice

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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