The late, great Christopher Hitchens has died. He would probably deconstruct that sentence and tell me I was redundant -- twice. First, "late" and "died" are the same thing and second, "great" and "Christopher Hitchens" are the same thing. Christ may not be great, but Christ-opher was.
When an atheist dies of a malignant cancer and doesn't dive for the comfort of the religious foxhole, the believing must feel a little disconcerted.
I've read Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris and the one argument they never seem quite brave enough to make is what I like to call the "The Fucking Argument Against God."
The Fucking Argument Against God is simple:
1. Fucking feels, tastes, smells, looks, sounds and tingles in a fantastic way.
2. You need a body to fuck.
3. You don't have your body when you are dead.
4. If you don't fuck now, you run the risk of never being able to fuck.
Now the religious among you will be stomping up and down and saying, "But what about the Resurrection?"
I have two arguments in response to that:
1. Are you willing to risk your one guaranteed chance of fucking on the off chance you'll get to fuck in the hereafter?
2. God wouldn't let you fuck here, what makes you think he is going to let you fuck after you are dead? Don't you believe that God doesn't change? Malachi 3:6 in case you forgot.
If you are religious and don't find this argument persuasive, please realize that the Atheist is constantly bombarded with the "Why gamble with eternity? argument, i.e., Are you willing to risk an eternity of hell-fire for not believing?
I asked my Dick, and the answer is an irrevocable, "Hell, yeah."
I was going to say RIP Hitch, but his body has been donated for medical research, so I think it is better to say enjoy a vibrant and long afterlife as your contributions and words continue to incite discussion and controversy. Rest in Contrariness Hitch.
When an atheist dies of a malignant cancer and doesn't dive for the comfort of the religious foxhole, the believing must feel a little disconcerted.
I've read Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris and the one argument they never seem quite brave enough to make is what I like to call the "The Fucking Argument Against God."
The Fucking Argument Against God is simple:
1. Fucking feels, tastes, smells, looks, sounds and tingles in a fantastic way.
2. You need a body to fuck.
3. You don't have your body when you are dead.
4. If you don't fuck now, you run the risk of never being able to fuck.
Now the religious among you will be stomping up and down and saying, "But what about the Resurrection?"
I have two arguments in response to that:
1. Are you willing to risk your one guaranteed chance of fucking on the off chance you'll get to fuck in the hereafter?
2. God wouldn't let you fuck here, what makes you think he is going to let you fuck after you are dead? Don't you believe that God doesn't change? Malachi 3:6 in case you forgot.
If you are religious and don't find this argument persuasive, please realize that the Atheist is constantly bombarded with the "Why gamble with eternity? argument, i.e., Are you willing to risk an eternity of hell-fire for not believing?
I asked my Dick, and the answer is an irrevocable, "Hell, yeah."
I was going to say RIP Hitch, but his body has been donated for medical research, so I think it is better to say enjoy a vibrant and long afterlife as your contributions and words continue to incite discussion and controversy. Rest in Contrariness Hitch.
