Hitch and the godbotherers

Christopher Hitchens has a scathing piece about the Terri Shiavo case on Slate today. It probably comes closest to my real feelings about the entire matter. Here is a brief sample:

“The immediate crisis has apparently passed. But all through Easter Sunday, one had to be alert to the possibility that, at any moment, the late and long-dead Terri Schiavo would receive the stigmata on both palms and both feet and be wafted across the Florida strait, borne up by wonder-working dolphins, to be united in eternal bliss with the man-child Elián González.” Read more….

You gotta love Hitch, especially when he takes on the godbotherers. After all, this is a man who lacerates the Mother Teresa cult, calling her a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.