I am a fan of Hitch, not least because of his attack on the wishful thinking, lazy thinking and sentimental thinking that passes for much of Christianity (I am Christian). And I like his take on life, as expressed here (the bit about living ironically is spot on). "You’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It’s a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way." | |