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Dec. 12th, 2010 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionBloom: The ultimate literary pilgrimage in Rome is to the Protestant Cemetery, where Keats and Shelley are buried, and which I cannot visit without musing on the high irony that neither poet was a Christian believer.
Reminds me of another bit of the Blair/Hitchens debate:
Hitchens: [T]he secular movement in Northern Ireland [...] is a real thing and I know many people who have suffered dreadfully from membership in it, not excluding being pulled out of a car by a man in a balaclava and being asked, are you ... are you a Protestant Jewish atheist or a Catholic Jewish atheist? You laugh, but it's not so funny when the party of God has a gun in your ear at the same time.
Reminds me of another bit of the Blair/Hitchens debate:
Hitchens: [T]he secular movement in Northern Ireland [...] is a real thing and I know many people who have suffered dreadfully from membership in it, not excluding being pulled out of a car by a man in a balaclava and being asked, are you ... are you a Protestant Jewish atheist or a Catholic Jewish atheist? You laugh, but it's not so funny when the party of God has a gun in your ear at the same time.
