Hitchens Lecture

I left the Christopher Hitchens lecture almost the same way I came in, not knowing what to think. Before entering the lecture, I was anxious to hear what an atheist with a wide range of political knowledge would have to say. After leaving, I wanted some answers. I do believe Hitchens' is entertaining as he was able to make the crowd laugh with an anecdote from time to time and even receiving a roaring applause on a few occasions. Hitchens' atheist beliefs made me think about an uncle I have who is on the contrary to Hitchens. While I don't have anything against anyone practicing any faith or non-faith, I was a little piturbed on how Hitchens seemed to speak everything in hypotheticals when it came to religion, while on the flip-side made everything atheist absolute, much the same way my uncle is when it comes to his faith. I have a problem understanding someone's point (regardless of the subject) when they say "if this didn't happen/exist" there would be no change. There is no way to know that because of what happened and what took place. I sat with a friend from class and he made a great point when he said Hitchens was telling the audience believers take the easy way out by saying things are this way because that is how God wants it to be, but if you reverse what he said wouldn't it be just as easy to say you take the easy way out by beliving that there is no God.