• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

    Christopher Hitchens: Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
    Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd