Reply #5: He not only rambles like an ill-tempered drunk: his mythology is sloppy. [View All]

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In the Meso-American myth referenced, the goddess impregnated by the feathery ball already has some four hundred children, who set out to kill her, because they are outraged at her new pregnancy; they, and the daughter leading the rebellion, are defeated, with the daughter's head becoming the moon and the four hundred becoming stars. As a goddess with four hundred children seems an exceptionally unlikely candidate as a virgin mother when giving birth later, I think we may safely say that Mr Hitchens is extraordinarily careless in his mythology

To be taken seriously, one should at least pitch the ball over the plate