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l Life?
Im getting tired of
hearing from
Christopher Hitchens in
the media, and his
fervid and all-toofamiliar religion-bashing.
I happen to like the guy,
and also very much
appreciate such diverse
opinionshe is brilliant,
after all, and has some
valid points, which is
why I bother to read
him-but overall he goes
way too far and keeps
grinding the same ax ad
God Is Not Greatis a fine book title but a weak thesis. Rest assured
that I myself have plenty of similar criticism about religions,
including my own; but doesnt he know that there are hundreds of
millions (and have been billions) of very spiritual people, as well as
intensely religious ones, who need little or no deity in order to
pursue a spiritual path and live and embody a beautiful, wise and
loving spiritual life, both within and outside the formal traditional
religious denominations? Moreover, there are plenty of theists who
have a much more subtle and sophisticated understanding of the
divine, of prayer, and of reality than that which he lumps all deists
together with.
There is a difference that can be made between religion
(organized, for the most part) and spirituality itself, which is the
heart of it all; and moreover, spirituality has no Crusades,
Inquisitions, book burnings, isms and schisms, and so forth.
Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and their skeptical postmodern atheist ilk seem far too extreme to convert true believers
or even to sway the moderate middle; their dogmatic arguments
are more often than not one-sided monologues lacking in balance.
Although their points of view and critical analyses and reflections
are certainly not without merit, and deserving of serious