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Entry: Hitchens Unhinged Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_unhinged_part_i#6723 Post contents: I'm 'here' because I like reading lots of different things written by lots of different people. As for God, why the need to obscure something so basic with 'Hegel said that' and 'Marx once remarked' etc? The ONLY relevant question is: Can you prove God exists? No, just as no one else can prove it doesn't. But the burden of proof lies with those who are making the initial claim. If the police say I did something illegal it is for them to prove I did, not for me to prove I didn’t. I could, quite clearly, make up any ridiculous story I liked and then try to hawk it about (see Russell’s teapot), and so could anybody else. And you are blatantly smart enough to know that. You’re also smart enough to understand how the human brain lies to itself and will do wacky things to cover over the gaping abyss that surrounds it. With all this in mind, the thing that annoys those of us who feel no compulsion to believe is this need for religion to inflict its absurdity onto us. Keep it private. It’s sinister and embarrassing. Though I don’t agree with most of them, there are a lot of quite intelligent comments posted on this site. Trying to marry the fact that a lot of these same intelligent people also hold the conviction that a mysterious Sky Lord oversees all our affairs is extremely difficult. I if believed in God I should think the first thing I would do is to stop bothering to argue and think about materialist facts (terrorism, left/right, dogs etc) and just sit and await my heavenly reward, sated with the knowledge that all my earthly enemies are to burn in eternity. Or something like that. However, you are absolutely spot on about Bono and Michael Bore, two would-be Gods and professional cretins. In fact, so good at being cretins that perhaps only a celestial intelligence could have manufactured them. Sent at: 2008 05 16