Blair, Hitchens, and Marcion's Dilemma

Organized faith flies flags of surpassing beauty, as Marcion of Sinope knew in the second century after Christ, flags that snap in the wind of the spirit.

When you have had an experience of The Great Spirit, or The Holy Spirit, or of extraordinary love, as a human creature you ache to give it form and structure.  It's what we do.  We ritualize the things that matter.  And there is something even Hitchens acknowledges, something "ecstatic" that (?some of) us experience. 

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