Carla S

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
― Jim Morrison

“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything