While it starts a bit on the slow side, this interview with Christopher Hitchens is superb. One thing in particular that stuck me was how I feel his attitude towards religious believers — particularly Christian believers — has seemed to moderate somewhat over the past few years. While Hitchens sill sees religion as a problem in the sense that he does not see how such beliefs can exist within a secular, democratic system without the danger of those very beliefs being “imposed” on everyone else, it seems to me he has found a certain bit of humility and has developed a curiosity of sorts at the scores of very intelligent people who have looked at the arguments in favor of and against the existence of God and have decided that they find God’s existence to be a more convincing argument. Gone are the disparaging remarks about his intellectual equals (which are few and far between to be sure) who disagree with him. Gone is the rhetoric about how religion is irredeemably destructive to society. Perhaps there is still some hope for Hitchens after all!
