"Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments." ― Christopher Hitchens Topic(s): Religion More From Christopher Hitchens "I think the materialist conception of history is valid." "There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise." "I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny." More In Religion "When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."― Walter Jon Williams "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."― Pope John Paul II "They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don’t dictate those terms."― Larry Harvey