Christopher Hitchens: "I'm Absolutely Convinced That The Main Source of Hatred in the World is Religion."
Thanks to Dave at ex-christian.net for this. He also said:
The reason I am posting this video here is because I would like to point out that Hitchens does not advocate hating Christians, Muslims, or other religious people. It is religion itself that he says should be hated.
I think that hating individuals because they are infected with religious delusion is just as bigoted as hating people who are infected with a disease, or who are ignorant, or who are mistaken about something. I left Christianity when I figured out I had been duped by an ancient, well supported, propaganda campaign machine. I was angry about it. I felt deceived and cheated. But feeling anger, in my mind, is not hatred. When Christians try to evangelize me, I frequently feel irritated. Irritation, however, is also not hatred.
Although I may hate what religion can do to a thinking mind, it is the parasitic meme that I despise, not the parasite's host.