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Monday, May 14, 2007
 
Obvious

From here:
To him [Hitchens], it’s blindingly obvious: the great religions all began at a time when we knew a tiny fraction of what we know today about the origins of Earth and human life. It’s understandable that early humans would develop stories about gods or God to salve their ignorance. But people today have no such excuse. If they continue to believe in the unbelievable, or say they do, they are morons or lunatics or liars.
I haven't been on the same kind of history of religion / inanity of religion kick that Graeme has, but that's not too say that I don't appreciate the atheistic revivalism that seems to be rolling. Part of it no doubt is that I went to 12 years of Catholic schooling with a few college humanities courses heaped on for good measure, so I've had a lot of the religious history classes and am familiar with many of the more obvious flaws at least in Western religions. I worry that reading Hitchens will be like watching Dennis Miller do stand-up in that I fear there will be countless references that just fly above my head due to my being not well read enough. I may give it a try, but I feel like I probably already have enough material queued up to get me to July 21 when I get something light and fun to read.