Lucifer

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Statements such as that merely show that Hitchens was in the habit of presenting interpretations of Christian doctrine unfamiliar to any Christian.

Not to any christian, as I am sure you notice. Many have the doctrine of being born in sin and come up with a whole catalogue of no gos. Most of them something a normal being can't possibly avoid without getting neurotic in the process. Such as having sex.

Hitchens oversimplifies, but ultimately the churches are the ones promising to have the one and only cure for simply being human.