I Hate Orange Helephinos!

Christopher Hitchens* has to be the angriest atheist in the world.
Is it rational to be so angry at that which does not exist?
Would I sound sane if I exhibited such anger at the men from Mars (by whom some swear) for not giving mankind the cures for all human diseases, and the secret to ending all conflict? Nurpe!
So why do people look at Hitchens as such a prodigious intellect?

He uses such large words!
He's so "Stratford-upon-Avon" the way he strings them together so seamlessly.
Hespeakssoefficientlyquickly! Like a swift little pugilist, pummelling one with stinging jabs that cannot be easily defended.
He is so condescendingly witty- in lieu of strong arguments. He points out so incisively all those ridiculous contradictions in the Bible. Contradictions which billions of Christians over thousands of years were either too stupid or too naiive to notice.
He is so rude, and we all know that tortured geniuses are too ingenuous- I mean inGENIOUS- to suffer the shortcomings of fools! And "genyasses" are the only ones we allow to be that putridly arrogant!
He must be a genius because he is too busy thinking up thoughts to think about combing his hair or wiping all that sweat off!
And he's British! Thaaat's it! That fact alone is worth forty more IQ points!
Honestly, of COURSE he is smart enough to know God exists, he's just mad at Him for occupying the throne Hitchens aspires to!

You, Mr. Hitchens say (on "Hardball, with Chris Matthews") that our morality is innate. When you say, "innate," I hear, "God-given."
Same exact thing.

Where do you think the "sense of right and wrong" comes from? You quote passages egregiously out of context and use them not to make your point, but to make God and the Bible seem ridiculous. You do violence, so to speak, to the truth of Scripture.
If I read a random line from a James Patterson novel that said, "Kill the children," would I be fair in surmising that Patterson advocates the murder of children? You do no different in your scriptural dart throwing. I could suggest that you study the Bible using fair and established methods of interpretation, but you don't want to do that. You only use that Book to try to beat God and Christians to death or silence.

You are so intelligent! Way too smart to hand the keys of creation to anyone but Thyself.
"Innate morality!" Please! You wouldn't say that if you were boiling in some cannibal's pot in the Amazon!

"This is wrong, this is WRONG! This entire enterprise is a travesty!" He shouted, as they stirred, adding cumin for flavor...

You're more ingenious than that! But, to him, eating you is- innately- the right thing to do. By your reasoning, no one has the right to say ANY act is wrong.

You know that your logic is self-contradictory and flawed!
You know the universe didn't order itself, make itself.
You know that you cannot prove a negative.
You know that you must carry the burden of proving that a thing does NOT exist.
You know that a cell is as structured as a city.
What Herculean faith it would take to believe otherwise.
You make people laugh, but I'll bet you don't laugh in the solitude of your own thoughts.
You know that the test is coming. Eat, drink, and be merry...

I know that I am being sarcastic. But I do so for a reason.
A bit of the hair of the dog, eh, wot?

*An author and up-and-coming celebrity