Wherever you stand on the current attack, recall Hitchens’ words about the scourge of theocracy.
[A]ny government that imagines it has a divine warrant will perforce deal with its critics as if they were profane and thus illegitimate by definition…
Reminds me of Japan’s wartime soft theocracy, which mired them in a bloodbath despite the voices of many rational and humane leaders there who argued for surrender. Only by nudging the country’s all-powerful, silent divinity to speak up was Japan able to save itself from possible extinction.