Gods and Death per Christopher Hitchens

"We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness.  That could be a lengthy stretch of time."

-Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, an atheist and an antitheist, a columnist and literary critic, an author, essayist and journalist.