Pat Goes Atheist

On CBS News Sunday Morning today the opening story was entitled "Atheists Make a Case Against God". The featured players were actress Julia Sweeney and columnist Christopher Hitchens. It starts with Sweeney:

(CBS) Whether or not God exists is perhaps the most perplexing of life's cosmic questions. It is a debate each of us has probably grappled with at one time or another.

For former "Saturday Night Live" star Julia Sweeney, giving up on religion was anything but easy.

"I had spent so much time thinking about what God meant, I hadn't really spent any time thinking what 'Not-God' meant," she told CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras. "There was this teeny-weeny voice whispering inside my head, I'm not sure how long it had been there but it suddenly got just one decibel louder and it whispered, 'There is no God.' I tried to ignore it but it got a little louder. 'There is no God, there is no God.' Oh God, there is no God! It was terrifying. You know, it was a terrifying moment to let go of that idea."

Sweeney is now making a film out of her stand-up routine describing her search for nothingness. Good luck with that.



Hitchens wrote "God Is Not Great", a book about his hatred of all things religious, and some months ago participated in The Great God Debate with Rev. Mark D. Roberts on Hugh Hewitt's show. From what I hear, Roberts pretty much mopped the floor with him but Hitchens was unmoved. I would like to Hugh's posts about the debate, but frankly the search mechanism on Townhall.com where Hugh blogs is so useless that after spending nearly 20 minutes trying, I couldn't locate it. Maybe you'll have better luck. That's yet another reason why I've never moved my blog over there despite being invited.



You can read the text from the entire CBS story here. It doesn't exactly shed any new light on the subject of God vs. No God.