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Entry: The New Wars of Religion Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_new_wars_of_religion#31444 Post contents: "There are enough things to be divided about. Hitchens’ point was that religion is one more than necessary. " I'll take your false premise and properly re-order it: Of all the things about which to be divided, only religion is worthy of argument. Absent religion, absent the fight for the true ordering of man according to his divine origin, then all the divisions you wish to elevate are the petty divisions of vice: Greed, Lust, Sloth, etc. In this sense, Hitchens (and you) don't merely miss the point, you've missed the fight. Indifferentism, Pat's primary target, is precisely the point at which the "state" wins. Obama is peddling indifferentism masquerading as some sort of Christian evolution... and doing so fairly effectively it seems. Part of Pat's concern, it seems, is that an Obama victory would then be a victory of the State against the common man. When we man the barricades it will be against the State and the organizing force will be religion. Sent at: 2008 12 02