Christopher Hitchens wrote a book a few years ago titled, "God is Not Great." In it he proclaimed his disbelief in God and the many reasons he thought that belief in God was a cause for problems in the world.
It is easy for skeptics like Christopher Hitchens to rail against God. God is not visibly present. God is not standing over them striking them with lightening when they blaspheme his name or ridicule belief in him. The world is definitely broken and bad things are happening all around us. Someone, anyone, might ask, as Hitchens asked, "Why should I worry about an invisible God? Why not do what I please to do?"
But these same currents have flowed throughout human history. They were flowing in Isaiah's day. Isaiah moved against the tide and proclaimed that God IS Great! We should be steadfast in following God wholeheartedly.
P.S. - I don't believe that Christopher Hitchens was struck down by God with esophageal cancer because of his unbelief and blasphemy. We live in a world broken by sin. If anything, the cancer was evidence of God's mercy in that it gave Mr. Hitchens time to confront his own mortality and reconsider his ideas about God.
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