– L. W.

This was an interesting set of reviews.

While the subject’s up, however, I want to add that the more I see and hear of Hitchens, the less I like him. All I’ve ever heard out of him was “What’s religion ever done that’s so great?” This appears to be all he says in public media, regardless of what the topic actually is. As an example, there was a recent editoral back-and-forth between Hitchens and Maichael Gerson. I was thoroughly unimpressed with Gerson’s question about where atheist morality comes from, but Hitchen’s evaded the question entirely. It was brushed off, and quickly became “Religion’s not so great!”

Sorry about the verbosity, but he kinda gets a bug under my skin.

The supposed “wall of separation” started off a couple of bricks high at our founding, and has progressively been built up to the size of the Great Wall of China as this country becomes more and more secular. If you think Bush is tearing down the wall, I would love to see what you would think if you lived in this country 200 years ago. You would probably conclude that you were living in a theocracy. I tire of all this talk that Bush is tearing down the wall of separation (which the Constitution does not call for anyway–it calls for non-establishment). He is doing no such thing.

Jason