You ask me, and it’s a joke question, do I think I’m going to paradise? Of course not. I wouldn’t go if I was asked. I don’t want to live in some fucking celestial North Korea, for one thing, where all I get to do is praise the dear leader from dawn till dusk. I don’t want this. It would be hell, for me, so let’s get that clear. But when Rick Warren, who’s invited to give the invocation at the inauguration of an elected, constitutional president of the US was asked in Colorado the other day, by a Jewish woman, ‘can I come to your paradise?’, he said ‘no’. Well, screw him. And don’t let say that is a nothing distinction.
Christopher Hitchens, in reply to Rabbi Harold Kushner’s answer on reciprocal contribution between religious ideologies