Disbelief

I'm not usually a big fan of Christopher Hitchens, or, for that matter of Tim Russert --- the latter seems usually to be so sycophantic to the republicans he interviews as to be unworthy of respect; the former seems to phone in most of his interviews in a seemingly drunken stupor. But I just watched CH appear quite coherent discussing religion (and why he is an atheist) with TR and Jon Meachem, both avowedly religious. I thought that CH made many of the strongest anti-belief points (especially those arising from a combination of scientific understanding, and realising the ridiculous level of anthropocentrism we'd need to indulge in to believe that we are the subject of the universe): he was cogent and clear. And they even touched on the point that an atheist would be unelectable in the US in the current atmosphere: and touched on it basically as an issue of civil rights.


A pleasant suprise.

Yours in disbelief,
N.