Good news for atheists. Australia has a new prime minister, and she doesn’t believe in the existence of God. Finally atheists can say that not all politicians need to pay lip-service to God to bring in votes. That's how it's been done from Hitler to Clinton to Bush to Obama.
There's something particularly nauseating about hearing a political candidate mouth off a well-placed "God bless you," and seeing him clutch a shrink-wrapped Bible as he goes in to church. But that all changed with this new PM.
The bad news is that Christopher Hitchens has cancer, and it's a particularly nasty form--cancer of the esophagus. I've been thinking about him a lot since I heard. So if you are a Christian, you may like to remember him in prayer, and if you are an atheist, perhaps you could have a moment's silence for him. If anyone knows his address, I wonder if you could send it to me. Maybe we can at least let him know that we are thinking of him.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Good News and Bad News
