Christopher Hitchens Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
Birthday: April 13
Death: December 15
People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.
topic: Sorry, Lying, Thinking, Abjection, Propitiation
