Christopher argues, while it may be admitted that biblical stories are myths and not metaphysically true, it is not true that we would require these myths as a basis for our ethics, our morals.
That the wishful thinking, of vicarious redemption, through human sacrifice is absolutely immoral, and allows followers to absolve themselves of personal responsibility via scapegoating.
We hear Hitchens first time arguing against the unethical and ridiculous idea of being convicted and condemned eternally for "thought crime", by the imagined totalitarian regime that is the celestial dictatorship.
That out of self respect we should acknowledge that we are capable of moral action without the help of religion and furthermore, that moral capability is innate within us.
How science and reason are irreconcilable with religion. And religion is sinister, childish nonsense that appeals to our solipsism and to our masochism.

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