farewell christopher hitchens

[hi_im_god]

"i was dealt a good hand by the cosmos, which doesn't know i exist and won't know when i've gone."

"the only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. it is not a creed. death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of paradise and the dread of hell. life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. there is nothing more; but i want nothing more."

and my favorite:

"human decency is not derived from religion. it precedes it"