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Entry: Hitchens' Hubris Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_hubris#2696 Post contents: Dirk, Thank you for your kind words. My argument is that artists working in an increasingly atheistic milieu are likely to produce ugly art. Charles Murray makes a similar argument in his essay quoted in my article. And we do disagree about the type of music Schonberg wrote. I think that atonal music is ugly, as does the vast majority of the concert-going public. I assume that there have been atonal composers, abstract painters, and Bauhaus architects who were believers, but I don't believe that such art would ever have arisen if the world in which those artists lived had not been increasingly permeated by doubt and disbelief. Sent at: 2008 07 04