Holy Writ
• Skeptics & Atheists
Christopher Hitchens, who sadly has been something of a bore lately, writes about Western literary authors in conflict with Islam. (NB: I'm not Islamophobic. There's far more damning Christianity in the archives of this weblog.)
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.
Recent writers on Islam need to be more stringent in their criticism