i promise this is the last mention of the hitch book. i’m almost done now and it gets better page by page.
jonathon miller had a series on the BBC called “the natural history of disbelief”. (i read somewhere that it’s on the web in full somewhere). it was a fine series and involved the history of atheism and a whole bunch of interviews conducted by miller. what sticks in my mind was an interview he did with dan dennett. toward the end miller says that if anyone could write ‘the’ book to debunk religion it would be dennett, and why hasn’t he written it? dennett replied that he’d thought about it, but that he felt that some people needed religion as a kind of moral viagra.
we now know that dennett did write ‘a’ book (the natural history of religion), and that it wasn’t ‘the’ book. hitch wrote that.
i just spent an hour reading about the nefarious gandhi and the evils of buddhism and why religion is child abuse. ahhhh.
