I must admit I’m currently enjoying the current round of interviews that Christopher Hitchins is giving to publicise his latest book: God Is Not Great. He gives no quarter whatsoever in his verbal swordplay.
The latest that I’ve heard is the interview he gave on Simon Mayo’s BBC radio show last Monday. You can still listen to it or download the podcast for another day or two from here (choose the Monday tab). My favourite bit:
Mayo: Do you think that you would win more converts to atheism if you were less dismissive of religious…Hitchens: I have no idea, but I can’t be other than dismissive. I hear someone like that sheep-faced loon from Blandford Forum [the Reverend Tim something-or-other… a previous caller] I have to say it sounds like bleating to me, and I remember why you people call yourselves a flock. Yep. Be like a sheep yourself if you must, but please leave me out of it. I’m not a sheep and I don’t need a shepherd and what shepherds do when they’re not actually messing around with their sheep is they’re keeping them around and alive so they can be fleeced and then killed. And yes, hearing these bleatings from the church of England does remind me of that and I don’t feel any need to make converts by not saying what I think. I leave it to them to make their hypocritical, unctuous, pseudo-friendly statements in the hope of keeping people inside the church.
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