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God grief
Christopher Hitchens has attacked modern-day saints like Mother Teresa and Princess Di, but his new book takes aim at the most sacred cow of all: The Almighty.
By Giles Harvey [2007-05-10]

  • Hitch across the ditch

    Hitch was pretty good on Aussie radio last night:

    http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/lnl_20070510.mp3

    One last $0.20:

    Atheists don't need to "prove" ANYTHING. The seemingly godlike origins of a vast majority of natural phenomena are now very well explained by science, there is no real need for gods to explain our existence and environment. Now, you might argue that science and logic can't prove that your faith ISN'T justified, and fair enough too, but here's one "fact" for you - atheists aren't the ones making the supernatural claims, the religious are. If you make extraordinary claims then you must provide extraordinary evidence to support them. Until then, I kinda like my rational view of this incredible universe.

    As for the argument about religion bringing people together, giving people hope and purpose... well, despite a lot of obvious examples that this isn't always the case, I get the feeling that argument might have some legs yet.

    -- noodleboy
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    Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:38 PM
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