I have Christopher Hitchens' book "God Is Not Great - How religion poisons everything" in my library, but when I found this audio-book on YouTube, there was no way I was not listening; firstly, because his is the most beautiful voice I've ever heard reading a book, and, secondly, because his intellect and words are like a sword, beautiful, sharp and cutting. RIP Christopher Hitchens.
I dispensed with Christianity at the age of fourteen when I refused to do the expected thing and be confirmed into the German Lutheran church.
Since my childhood I have had only one more in-your-face encounter with religion, and that was with Islam during my years in Saudi Arabia, and so I cut right to the chase and started at the book's Chapter Nine, "The Koran Is Borrowed From Both Jewish and Christian Myth":
Continue by reading it online at archive.org, going straight to page 123.
What little I knew about Islam before I went to live and work in Saudi Arabia in 1982, I had learned from Peter O'Toole in the movie "Lawrence of Arabia". Nothing much seemed to have changed during the two years I lived there, although I have heard that since I left, women have been allowed to drive cars, as long as they - the cars - are properly covered.
Please don't bother to comment or send me any other sort of hate mail, as this blog entry is entirely for my own benefit. As I wrote, Christopher Hitchens' voice is the most beautiful I've ever heard reading a book.
