Hitchens pees on Falwell's grave

I filed this one under "I was thinking it, he said it." Christopher Hitchens, a noted anti-religious activist (at least organized religion), spoke of the late Jerry Falwell in pretty stark and altogether unflattering terms the other night on Anderson 360.

Quite frankly, I don't disagree with a word Hitchens says in this interview. Falwell was a pickpocket and a charlatan. The only thing funnier was that millions of people believed him.

Hitchens makes a number of good points here, and I won't recount them all, but the most spot on is that if you have "Rev." in front of your name in this country, you sure can get away with a whole lot. And I'm not just talking about people on the right, either. Al Sharpton is also a disgrace, and I'm not the biggest fan of Jesse Jackson, either. But, these two have done comparatively minor damage to our political discourse when compared to the likes of Ted Haggard, Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the rest of the right-wing fanatics.

Well said, Mr. Hitchens. I'm looking forward to reading his book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything sometime soon.