This debate saddens me a bit. In my humble opinion, I feel that both men are missing the point: they argue from their ego-perspective (especially so in Hitchens' case - a more singular ego-perspective while in a more collective ego-perspective in Boteach's case).
Boteach is very emotional and passionate (which I admire in some respect), but fail to defend the notion of 'God' in a non-Jewish sense. In my humble opinion, 'God' is beyond any organized human thought pattern and metaphor. The concept of God should in this day and age be approached in a slightly more open-minded way such as the profound connection between modern science and ancient mysticism (as I describe in my book 'The Sleeper Must Awaken').
Christopher Hitchens is a great orator (ad verbatim, impressive…) with a dry sense of humour and wit; but his arrogance and sarcastic way of downtrodding millions of believers is very saddening. It is like rediculing and breaking the heart of your child for believing in the tooth fairy or santa clause. This is cruel and sadistic, and neatly glossed with a hidden anti-semitic mindset (saying this not even being jewish myself).
It also saddens me to hear the live audience's response and sub-acute mockery of the Rabbi, who at least have the courage to stand up to a majority. In the words of the Christ: he who has no blemish, cast the first stone…
'God' is beyond egotistic televised debates. In fact the word 'God' does not describe The Presence we all feel; The Presence that has been with 'us' since consciousness started evolving in the incalculable 'past' (past that does not exist as time is a mere illusion in 3d dimensional 'space'). The Presence that IS US and ALL.
To believe or not to believe in this Presence of Self - in whattever peculiar way - is a mere externalization/ unfolding/ projection of The One Consciousness in order to experience Self in the shape of The Journey we call 'life' - from Super String or M-Brane to Molecule to amoeba to human to angel to ET to Universe…
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