cogitorum:

An interesting and readable article on CH from a writer whose fundamentalism mirrors that of his subject but is at least less polemical. That Hitchens is a deeply flawed character, however, is hardly worthy of further commentary, and his personal inadequacies no more negate the rationale for atheism than the sad parade of evangelical pastors or Catholic priests guilty of sex crimes negates religion. As someone said, "let him without sin . . . ".

I would take issue with part of Schaeffer's penultimate paragraph, where he appears to insinuate that an alleged increase in crime in Britain is a consequence of encroaching atheism: I'd invite him to compare rates of violent crime and incarceration in the US compared with western Europe, Canada and Japan, all of which are decidedly more secular than America.

with all doooooooooo respect, :))

1. Yes, piling on Hitch would seem to be redundant, and presupposes that he has some credibility to destroy. However, I simply cannot pass up an opportunity to publish any work that references Hitchens, as I have for so long, as a sack of shit.

2. I don't think Schaeffer is making that point, but rather the opposite. He's saying that to argue that crime levels are associated, either directly or inversely to "religion" in a country is empirically unsupported b/ there is no uniform trend of either condition.