The Prophet of the Void

Showing just how much of a classy guy he is, Hitchens writes in a recent article:

Jerry Falwell—another man who managed to get away with murder by getting himself called "Reverend"—dies without being bodily "raptured" into the heavens. Indeed, his heavy carcass is found on the floor of his Virginia office. The cable shows start to call and I have a book to sell: maybe someone up there does love me after all.

That right there is the morality of an Atheist on display. Celebration of a dead man because it helps him sell his book. Pathetic. 

That's just a tidbit though - the majority of the article consists of Hitch celebrating his new "Best-Seller."  I can't begin to describe how much I enjoy wading through the smug rantings of this drunken toad, but he does produce some entertaining comments from time to time.

I love his argument here:

My challenge: name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever. I have since asked this question at every stop and haven't had a reply yet.

There isn't a reply for this question BECAUSE IT'S A STUPID NONSENSE QUESTION.  The pertinent questions are these:

• On WHAT does your nonbeliever base his sense of "ethics?" 
• Why should he have a sense of "ethics" if it does nothing to further his ability to survive and thrive?

And most importantly:

• Why should your theoretical nonbeliever's sense of "ethics" apply to any other human being above and beyond their own set of made up "ethics?"

All you've got is practicality, as there is no objective right or wrong in an atheist's world.  Rings a little hollow, doesn't it?

Tell ya what Hitch.  I predict that when a few thousand years have passed and people are still reading the Bible, your life's work will be nothing but an asterisk on a footnote on a half-forgotten page of history.  And when that day comes, your only achievement of note will have been to demonstrate to literally millions around the globe how empty, pointless, hopeless, and sad it is to exist in the absence of the divine and just how rude, cruel, and generally horrid atheists can be.  That will push people to faith more surely than any preacher ever could. 

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