[Diamond]

The interesting thing about that magnificent letter from the District Attorney, Paul W. Turley, relative to Christopher Hitchens' atheism, is that the moral claims expressed in the letter are only coherent and intelligible on Christian presuppositions. An atheist universe precludes the existence of abstract, universal invariants upon which reason and morality depend. Since a Hitchens universe cannot account for things like the laws of logic or moral incumbency in the first place, he had no rational basis or foundation for his prescriptive claims or moral indignation over abstract, universal, invariant laws of thought relative to Mother Teresa's behavior - or anything else, for that matter. His vituperative moral outrage over Mother Teresa's conduct was self-vitiating.

Cordially,

[anglian]

"Since a Hitchens universe cannot account for things like the laws of logic or moral incumbency in the first place, he had no rational basis or foundation for his prescriptive claims or moral indignation over abstract, universal, invariant laws.

Hitchens - "the very parable of the good Samaritan – who was not a Christian – suggests that morality and religion are not necessarily linked. “Morality comes from us. Religion claims to have invented it on our behalf.”