With one foot not yet in the grave but elevated to assist with the post-operative healing, I was immobilised long enough to listen to this stimulating hour-long discussion about an afterlife which I don't believe in either.
However, if one deserved an afterlife, it should have been Christopher Eric Hitchens, one of the most influential atheists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He died in December 2011 and his intellect will be missed.
As Christopher Hitchens says at the end, "I'm dying - as you are!" As we all are, one day at a time, until one day the party is over. Which isn't all that bad except for the fact that for others the party goes on and it's just you who's been told to leave. However, how much worse would it be if the party went on and on and you weren' allowed to leave at all?
That would be the afterlife! Unbearable! Of course, it's more bearable for Muslim men who are being promised 72 virgins. Interestingly, Muslim women are only promised to get their husbands back. Some afterlife!
Even more interestingly, the Quran scholar Irshad Manji said that the original word used in the Quran was the word for raisins, not virgins. In other words, that martyrs would get 72 raisins in heaven, not virgins. I must be in heaven already because I had 72 raisins with my Weet-Bix!
Please listen to it from beginning to end. It is witty and entertaining to watch and so much better than anything you could find on Netflix.
