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Entry: Hitchens' Haj Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_haj#7068 Post contents: @ Philipa, "how can you abolish something that doesn’t exist? Chris hitchens doesn’t want to abolish God as he doesn’t believe there is a God to abolish." Then there's no point in his most recent book and no reason for anyone to buy it. Of course Hitchens doesn't want to abolish God; without God, Hitchens would be a poorer man today, and not just financially. (And deep down he knows, as all Children of Adam know in their hearts, that without God he wouldn't exist. THAT is the condition which outrages Hitchens: the contingency of his very existence on a God whose gift of Life warrants humility - and nothing but humility - in return. But humility is too hard a pill for Hitchens to swallow, as it was for Satan.) And come on, you knew I was being metaphorical with the phrase "abolish God." Don't be disingenuous with that semantic argument. At any rate, an "atheist" is just someone who doesn't believe in someone else's god. Everyone is a "Believer" of some kind. What Hitchens wants to abolish is - by his own admission - not just what others do with their beliefs in God, but the WAY they believe in God in a way in which Hitchens hates, especially the way of humility. Hitchens' excoriation of religious fanatics (of whom he is one, in his own way) is a half-truth and essentially a lie; what he REALLY can't bear is Humility. Sent at: 2008 07 06