If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.