badgenome on 03 May 2013
| richardhutnik said: Hitchens argues that atheism is morally superior, but fails to shows in practice, particularly his life, that it is so. |
Comparing one random atheist who was apparently immoral because he smoked and got a divorce to a bunch of hypothetical Mormons (in reality, there are Mormons who smoke and get divorced, you know) is not a good way to determine whether or not atheism is more moral than religiousness. Besides, it is pretty obvious that Hitchens was responding to the pervasive notion that people have of religious people being more moral than atheists, to the point that a large number of Americans say outright that they would refuse to vote for an atheist.
