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Entry: Hitchens Unhinged Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_unhinged_part_i#6942 Post contents: @ Maud "If I could remove the desire for sex, that makes me sometimes do ludicrous and irksome things in pursuit of it, I sometimes think I would." That wouldn't solve the problem. As long as you're alive you'll do ludicrous and irksome things. I'm gonna have my dog neutered soon, but that won't stop him from barking at imagined intruders or stealing my socks. "You don’t practice a 100% of Catholic doctrines? Well, in all seriousness, why practice any % if you pick out the bits that don’t suit you?" That's my acknowledgment of my condition of Original Sin. There is no such thing as a Perfect Catholic; Catholic doctrine itself teaches that no one except for Christ has ever followed Christ's way perfectly, not even the Saints, and no one ever really believes in "100 percent" of Catholic doctrine because, among other things, no one ever REALLY, TOTALLY understands it perfectly. Christianity isn't about total unquestioning acceptance of doctrine or dogma; Jesus taught in parables because he wanted us to think for ourselves. So why do I still not convert from Catholicism to something else like Protestantism? I've often come close to doing so, but then I keep realising/remembering that a paradoxical tension between faith and existential doubt (and struggle against despair) is in fact the heart of Catholicism, just as it was an essential part of Christ's passion. Hitchens and Dawkins, on the other hand, abase themselves before the nineteenth-century idols of Darwinist materialism just as mindlessly and spinelessly as any Muslim Fundamentalist idolises the Koran. Idolatry begins where wonder ends. Sent at: 2008 05 16