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Mr. Hitchens likes to carry himself off as a well-educated man, but his understanding of religion is remarkably infantile! There are many well-reasoned criticisms of the variety of typical Christian, Jewish, and Islamic monotheistic understandings of reality. I am aware of similar criticisms of many other religions and, as a Christian minister, I take these criticisms to heart.
But what Mr. Hitchens fails to recognize is that many of the mandates in ALL religions are suggested and function more as human prescriptions of power and control over others, not as divine suggestions that lead to the betterment of all. His criticisms of RELIGION could be paralleled by making equivalent criticisms of MONEY: very great evil has been done for profit and by the use of money. Does this mean that all money is bad, or simply that some people make use of money in harmful and destructive ways?