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There's a stellar 300 page book of quotes by Christopher Hitchens, title above. I've had it for years and every now and then when I need a much needed hitchslap, I take it out. 

F Bombs and C Words

 The curse-word "fascism" is easily enough thrown around, including by me on occasion, but I give you my oath that it makes a difference to you when you see the real thing at work.

  Fear is the mother of superstition. 

Fatherhood precisely insists that you will be outlived, or that it's your duty to insure that you are. Without premeditation, you realize that you are ready to die for someone as well as live for them. 

The First Amendment is my life as well as the source of my living. 

And a few favorite c-words! The Church badly needs a Holocaust saint, because whenever and wherever it could it helped Nazis and Fascists into power. 

Studying that war, one can perhaps accept that 25% of the SS were practicing Catholics and that no Catholic was even threatened with excommunication for participating in war crimes. Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated, but that was earlier on, and he had after all brought it upon himself for the offense of marrying a Protestant. 

"Child abuse" is really a silly and pathetic euphemism for what has been going on: we are talking about the systematic rape and torture of children, positively aided and abetted by a hierarchy which knowingly moved the grossest offenders to parishes where they would be safer. Given what has come to light in modern cities in recent times, one can only shudder to think what was happening in the centuries where the church was above all criticism.

And Amazon has it used for $3.50!

https://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Hitchens-Alcohol-Zionism-Christopher/dp/0306819589

Peter T. 

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