June 05, 2006
I don't know how they managed it
...but WORLD Magazine, not exactly a publication I associate with quality journalism (or even quality prose most of the time) has landed an exclusive with...
Christopher Hitchens.
Good stuff. They ask the obvious questions, but Hitch doesn't give the obvious answers:
HITCHENS: "I don't have the nostalgia for the lost period of faith. I'm glad it's over and my children won't have to know about it. Except from me."
WORLD: From you?
HITCHENS: I teach them this stuff and they don't know what I think.
WORLD: How do you teach them without them knowing what you think?
HITCHENS: You are not educated if you don't know the Bible. You can't read Shakespeare or Milton without it, even if there was nothing else of it. And with the schools now, that's what I hate about secular relativism. They're afraid of insurance liability. They don't even teach it as a document. They stay out of the whole thing to avoid controversy. So kids can't quote the King James Bible. That's terrible..."
