Some good lines in Hitchens’s account of his book tour. First stop was Little Rock:
At the end of the event I discover something that I am going to keep on discovering: half the people attending had thought that they were the only atheists in town.
Just so. That’s why some atheists think there really is a need for atheists to be ‘militant’ or ‘aggressive’ or ‘strident’ or, to put it in less vituperative language, articulate rather than silent and active rather than passive. That’s why some atheists think there really is a need for atheism to become public, talkative, unembarrassed, unapologetic, taken for granted, normalized, quotidian, rather than private, silent, ashamed, secretive, and weird. We think that because … Read the rest
