God may say to Christopher Hitchens: you wanted to live totally without Me, without My existence. Very well: Thy will be done. "Where the tree falls, there shall it lie." Actually, Hitchens was pro-life. He changed his position after witnessing an abortion for himself. Whilst I disagree with a large majority of what he had to say (particularly in regards to Christianity), he was an interesting individual. Much as I would like to believe in an afterlife, let's look at it logically. Why, if it were possible to exist as separately in a spiritual realm, would corporeal bodies, the products of eons of evolutions, be necessary at all? Cathchap and Patsy, the Catholic faith is a balance between Faith and Reason, and is not just based on a pure act of faith, as can be seen in the work of St Thomas Aquinas and Blessed Pope John Paul's encyclical, Fides et ratio [Faith and Reason]. The Catholic Church neither professes fideism [faith alone] nor skeptical rationalism [ e.g. scientism]. Deacon Nick Cathchap, I agree with everything you say, but its important to be clear that the Catholic approach is a balance between faith and reason. The operative word being 'balance'. Fides et Ratio is very clear about this. Deacon Nick Patsy Devlin, you appear to have been led astray by accepting the theory of evolution. The proponents of inter-species evolution need to apply scientific method to prove it. Darwin did not prove it. In the years since then, millions --