Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve, 2007.
Cartoonists tend to take the most unusual physical features of politicians and exaggerate them to create a caricature of the person.
Essentially, he was expressing a Darwinian idea in poetry. See Herbert Spencer {627582} for an even more specific argument for the same point.
This is a very good quotation showing the point of view of religious fundamentalists that if there is no fixed statement of ethics and morality as with the word of God as revealed in the Bible, what then makes anything right or wrong and the world exists in a moral behavioral vacuum. Other religionists hold that the morality is in the metaphors and philosophy of religion and not in the literal words of scripture. Still others argue that morality and religion itself is dynamic and is constantly changing. Then there are those who build their view of morality on philosophy but which is not based on a deity—Ethical Culturalists for example {592791}. Also, there are the pragmatic evolutionists who argue that cooperative behavior has evolved in man and cultural rules—morality—is also transmitted by culture and systems of law.
Man will put foward a goal to raise himself to a new level to create a higher sicio-biological type.
He was one of the very early thinkers who realized that one of the major implications of Evololution was that man would likely try to manipulate the many variables taht could effect evolution to forther develop ouyr species. It took until the end of the 20th centrury before man actually tried to do this.
Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-American intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist and columnist. He wrote, co-wrote, edited or co-edited over 30 books, including five of essays on culture, politics and literature. Having contributed to several publications, he is broadly regarded as one of the most influential atheists of all time.
