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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether you are religious or not you should listen to Christopher Hitchens take on this subject.   Fascinating and scary.  He called it just like it's happening.    His main goal in his later life was to prevent anyone's beliefs from intruding in ANY way on anyone else, including running of a country.   He also spoke about Thomas Jefferson's reason for wanting separation of church and state which most people think is because Thomas Jefferson was religious and it was the opposite.

I think I found out about this book on DCUM, but "The United States of Hobby Lobby"  also goes into the religious right's plans for this country and how many people are working behind the scenes to make this a Christian nation.

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Hitchens described himself as an anti-theist, who saw all religions as false, harmful and authoritarian.[30]

30] Hitchens, Christopher (2005). Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books. pp. 55, 57. ISBN 0465030335. “I am [not a] part of the generalised agnosticism of our culture. I am not even an atheist so much as I am an anti-theist... all religions are versions of the same untruth... the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful... cradle-to-grave divine supervision; a permanent surveillance and monitoring... I am [not] privy to the secrets of the universe or its creator... even [the best of the theisms] are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism.“

Hitchens was not an atheist, he was an anti-theist.

His belief that all religion is bad and harmful is not right for America and our laws and freedoms. [/quote]

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