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Hitchens has some extremely valid points. Religion, and Christianity in particular, are institutions that perpetuate lies about ourselves and the world we live in. They proclaim moral superiority but in practice offer little, if any. In fact their very use as tools to control the childlike human...

It's not doubt in the minds of the religious which causes them to weep. They weep merely for their own sense of loss. As do we all. They merely tack on the complications that go with their religion ("Why God, why?") to add to that most simple of human emotions. I would speculate that the...

Logic isn't necessarily intuitive, just as the universe that logic is meant to describe isn't necessarily intuitive either. Our experience on earth as highly intelligent apes doesn't instantaneously grant us access to all the secrets of the universe nor does it sweep aside thousands of years of...