{"id":1369,"date":"2007-10-12T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/10\/maybe-christopher-hitchens-is.html"},"modified":"2007-10-12T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:30:16","slug":"maybe-christopher-hitchens-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/10\/maybe-christopher-hitchens-is.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Christopher Hitchens Is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the headline “Does God Read?”, my friend Daniel Septimus has this witty observation over at Mixed Multitudes<\/a> on MyJewishLearning.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Maybe God really isn\u2019t great. If He were so great, wouldn\u2019t He have made sure Christopher Hitchens wasn\u2019t nominated for a National Book Award.
\nAnd guess what? Christopher Hitchens was nominated for a National Book Award. So there you go. I proved it. God is totally not great.
\nUnless\u2026
\nMaybe God doesn\u2019t read.
\nSo there. I\u2019ve proved it. Either (a) God is not great; (b) God doesn\u2019t read.
\nTotally.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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