Militant atheism has become a religion - Salon.com

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift

One quiet Sunday morning, I stroll down the driveway of my home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to pick up the newspaper. As I arrive at the bottom—we live on a hill—a Cadillac drives up the street and stops right before me. A big man in a suit steps out, sticking out his hand. A firm handshake follows, during which I hear him proclaim in a booming, almost happy voice, “I’m looking for lost souls!” Apart from perhaps being overly trusting, I am rather slow and had no idea what he was talking about. I turned around to look behind me, thinking that perhaps he had lost his dog, then corrected myself and mumbled something like, “I’m not very religious.

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Hitchens's attitude really turns me off even though he is an extremely bright man and raises some serious questions regarding religious faith and belief systems.

John H. Armwood