The Atheist on God

 A brief, piss-poor interview recently with Christopher Hitchens:



Though I've enjoyed reading some of Mr. Hitchens' scribblings over the years (see: God is Not Great and that Shakespearean Slate piece, "Free Exercise of Religion. No Thanks.") and respect his craft tremendously, particularly (oddly?) lately, it just all, ultimately (for me), rings hollow.

Perhaps, with Hitchens (and others not completely unlike him) it is as Friedrich Nietzsche (that great lover of fate or what?) noted in one of his many aphorisms:

"The irrationality of a thing (God?) is no argument against its existence, rather a
condition of it,"
or
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and
epochs, it is the rule,"
or
"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others,"
or
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the
abyss, the abyss gazes also into you,"
or
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing,"
or especially,
"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross,"

Deists, of late, and romanticists, generally, might want to hold onto this one:
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

May we ALL (my own underlying, quiet idealism springing eternally), in the end, find true peace.