Quote of the Day: Hitchens Revises the Ten Commandments

Heather Horn Apr 12, 2010
Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color. Do not ever use people as private property ... Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child. Do not condemn people for their inborn nature--why would God create so many homosexuals only in order to torture and destroy them? ... Turn off that fucking cell phone--you have no idea how unimportant your call is to us. Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions. Be willing to renounce any god or any religion if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above. In short: Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.
-Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair, on updating the Ten Commandments

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