The strange attractiveness, for some, of Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great, apparently.

So said the late Christopher Hitchens, in his book, God Is Not Great, a sweeping epic set against the backdrop of Professor Richard Dawkins making an absolute killing by writing an anti-religion book, and Hitchens' opportunistic attempt to cash in on the back of it.

Following the release of Dawkins' book, The God Delusion, a sweeping epic set against the backdrop of Dawkins' attempt to exploit his well-known atheism and trouser a stack of easy money, Hitchens proceeded to dash off a version of his own, attacking religion as an irrational and poisonous danger to the world. That done, and with Hitchens much the wealthier for his efforts, he could return to his usual metier of whipping up support among his neocon cronies for the bombardment and eventual devastation of Iraq.

Now the poster-boy of every lapsed lefty with an expanded waistline and a taste for the blood of those who oppose his brand of neocon warmongering, it is the politics of Hitchens and his coterie, in fact, that forms an irrational and poisonous danger to the world.