on Hitchens: “By such logic I suppose you could compose some withering, condescending reply about Hitchens’ wrongful use of ‘advent.’ (‘In Catholicism, advent refers to the liturgical season prior to Christmas…’) Irrational antipathy and bad faith characterize Hitchens’ thought on all matters religious. That Hitchens would stoop to the level of such comical pedantry speaks volumes about his inability to think clearly on this subject. (Dare we accuse him of Jesuitical casuistry?)”