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Description of the event from the STL Post Dispatch: (link)

On Sept. 10, Hitchens and D'Souza will meet Powell Symphony Hall. The topic was "God on Trial," and the debate was sponsored by Fixed Point Foundation, a nonprofit Christian organization based in Birmingham, Ala.

Hitchens is a literary critic and journalist whose work appears in plenty of publications, including the Atlantic Monthly and Vanity Fair. Hitchens calls himself an antitheist and his book "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" has become an anti-religious tract for atheists.

D'Souza worked in the Reagan White House and for the conservative American Enterprise Institute. His latest book, "What's So Great About Christianity," is, according to his website, "the comprehensive answer to a spate of atheist books denouncing theism in general and Christianity in particular."

Paul Alamo and I attended the debate, and we may be posting some audio of our thoughts, but in the meantime, here are our impressions of what happened.

Craig Mayhem's Observations:

* Christians, as a whole, are far better dressed than atheists.
* Both Christians and atheists like clapping
* Young Christian women (not necessarily to the exclusion of young atheist women)  are hot
* No one can agree on whether Hitler was atheist or not, but both sides like to include him in their arguments.
* Christopher Hitchens wants Kim Jong Il to be dead and so do I.
* Dinesh D'Souza has 2 capital letters in his last name.
* Powell Symphony Hall should install a Jumbotron so you can see. We had nosebleed seats and could not see that well.
* The sound was resplendent.
* Christians like to read Bibles before debates. Or at least they looked like Bibles - they could have been some other form of Bible.
* Atheists favor headwear - myself included.
* I wondered if there are dead people in the urns above the exits.

Who won? We all won! Unless you were over 6'3" because those seats were kind of cramped.

Paul Alamo's Observations:

* If your over 6'3" your friggin knees are going to hurt sitting in Powell Hall
* You can prove the existence of God with a pie chart
* Religious bald guys can bag hot gals.  Right in front of us a hot CWILF was caressing her god-fearing husbands hair crown all night.  I mean caressing people.  Like a penis.
* Romulans sell podiums for religious debates.
* Christopher Hitchens sound like a pompous English douche.  Oh wait, yea, thats exactly what he is.
* Christians won't make the call on whether or not anyone will go to hell.  But, they believe in God because they don't want to go to hell.  Shoot me.
* Chritopher Hitchens likes to call the Pope, "Joseph Ratzinger", instead of the Pope because its some kind of insult.  I guess thats kind of like calling Senator Obama "Barry".
* Drinks should be served on every floor Powell Hall!  Especially at a religious debate.  I don't want to walk 900 flights of stairs for a beer?!  Jesus fucking christ.
* Sarah Palin could easily shoot Christopher Hitchens from a helicopter.  He's portly.
* D'Souza sounds like a well-prepared IT director.   
 

Dear Esteemed Neigbors Across the Alleyway,

First I want to wish you a continued joyous holiday season! Actually, let me say 'Merry Christmas' because I'm pretty sure that's what you celebrate - Merry Christmas!

How do I know that you celebrate the birthday of what many people believe is the Messiah? Well to be frank, it was the fireworks. The extremely loud and obnoxious fireworks that you began setting off last night were obviously expensive as they lit up our entire block and shook my windows.

I searched Google Images for 'jesus explode' and this is the first image.
I'm not intentionally making comment on your lifestyle dear neighbor,
but this is pretty damning!

But I ask you, is this how Jesus would celebrate his birthday?

I think not.

I doubt Jesus would blow anything up, unless it was the devil. Then of course it's ok. But I doubt the devil was in your back yard or hovering above my garage last night.

How do I know? Because the devil has Christmas off like the rest of us!

This was very high up in the 'devil explode' search. SFP approved.

At any rate, I hope that your prayer offerings of massive pyrotechnics were well recieved by Jesus.

I guess it's the American Way!

Love,
Mr. Mayhem