Hitchens was always sharp. I did enjoy a good Hitch slap. I like Richard Dawkins as well. I did wonder at times why these guys bothered debating a bunch of religious types because it was never a fair fight, the religious types getting crushed over and over. 

Once as part of my job, I found myself in this beautiful seaside mansion. A secluded enclave behind walls and a fence and layer of pine forest and down a long drive with multiple buildings and that huge mansion with all kinds of huge windows looking out on the Atlantic. Pristinely manicured gardens and shrubbery and the place belonged to the Catholic Archdioceses and it was where they sent the "troubled" priests that had been molesting children. I don't generally like to use the word evil, because it seems to bestow a supernatural power on something that really is very human, but this may have been the most evil place I have ever been. 

It did not feel right, and the guy I was dealing with saw my strange discomfort and he said to me, "You feel something is off here?" and I said "Yeah, weird and it is such a beautiful place." and he said "They are all diddlers, every one." and I said "What?"

He said "This is where they send them, to hide them away, and provide therapy until some of them are sent back out to do it again. Some just never leave here. Bastards." 

A beautiful seaside haven for child molesters. I believe they ended up having to sell it off because they were having financial issues and so some really wealthy person probably lives there now on that hill overlooking the sea and I wonder if he feels the ghosts of all those dirty priests staring out the windows with him, hoping for another assignment where there are children. 

I remember thinking when I was inside that although there were huge picture windows all along the building looking out on the ocean, it seemed dark in there, like for some reason the sunlight would not penetrate. If places can absorb bad energy, that place must have been utterly bathed in it.