Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

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

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.