“Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”

~Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens, English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and social critic, was born on this day in 1949.