Christopher Hitchens on the Offer of Salvation

Just a reminder: Our world is fucked up because nature made it that way.
What progress we have made has been in direct opposition to that nature.

There exists something called the Moralistic Fallacy, which states that the
evil that exists in the world could not have come from nature. It gives us
mistakes like:

1. Because warfare is wrong and tragic, it cannot be part of human nature.

2. Because eating meat is violent and harms the environment, humans have no
   biological need for it.

3. Since it is right to treat men and women as equals, the sexes must be
   biologically equal as well.

Reject this garbage. Put it out of your mind.

In the time before books and technology and civilization, there were no
equal rights for men and women. Women were property. And there was no
openness between different types of people; if some strange tribe showed up
in your camp you killed their asses and did a chant about it. If a powerful
man wanted a pretty girl that belonged to a weaker man, he bounced his head
off of a rock and took her home.

This is no different than today’s world–not really. We all know women love
big, strong assholes. We also know that men love blonde bimbo types. We also
know that many politicians go to Washington to change it, and three vacation
homes later they won’t return calls from regular people.

War is natural. Class warfare is natural. Racism is natural. Men cheating on
their wives is natural. Strip clubs are natural. Wives screwing their
powerful bosses is natural. It’s the way the world works. It’s built into
us.

And it’s our job to fight this nature. It’s our job to cast off what we are
and become something more.

This is just a reminder. Don’t be surprised by what you see. There is no
perversion going on–only the natural flow of things. The evil,
natural flow of things. ::

[ P.S. Two more nights in Vegas. ]