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This should sum it all up.

Of course we can be good without God, but why the hell bother? If there are no moral lines except the ones we draw ourselves, why not draw and redraw them in places most favorable to our interests? Hitchens parries these concerns instead of answering them: Since all moral rules have exceptions and complications, he said, all moral choices are relative.

Or Like this atheist said...

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Death solves all problems

And who was this wise atheist who drew up his own moral compass? The man inthe picture below of course...

The fool hath said in his heart,There is no God.Psalm 14

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Proverbs 26:11.

When all philosophies shall fail, This word alone shall fit; That a sage feels too small for life, And a fool too large for it. -Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) Ballad of the White Horse, bk.8.

[Alberta's Child]

Good points there in that post.

The simple truth is that most self-described atheists these days could never function in a society in which true atheism ruled the day. This is what makes a lot of what Hitchens claims to believe rather hypocritical.

As Dennis Prager (a Jew himself) once pointed out (I'm paraphrasing here):

"If I were walking down a dark street in a dangerous neighborhood and came across a group of young men of unknown character, I would take great comfort in learning that they were Christians on their way home from a Bible study group meeting. And any Jew, atheist or other non-Christian who tells you otherwise is lying."