Hitchens’ summary argument is brilliant and wide spanning; watch the first part.
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The Parthenon ; numinous or transcendent
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG
I wrote a short book about the Parthenon and the sculpture of the Parthenon, the history of the building and so forth. Without that building, I would feel rather lost. If it were destroyed, for instance, I would feel that something really terrible had happened to the human species. But, I’m able to appreciate the […]
Read MoreWhen people say, “I am a person of faith,” they expect applause for it
Q: You say that nonbelievers, “Distrust anything that contradicts science or outrageous reason” that you respect free inquiry. I am a person of faith and absolutely agree with these two statements. But I do not believe that in order to be religious you have to disconnect your brain. Do you believe that and, if so, why? […]
Read MoreThe Creation story is ridiculous garbage
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Q: …The Greek myths, their fables, their folk tales that endured are not literally true, but there’s great value in the universal truths that are taught just by the story itself. I see so much of scripture in a similar way including, for example, the creation story. Can you agree with me that some of […]
Read MoreIf someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction?
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(See article: Christopher Hitchens and Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell interview. …I belong to what is a significant minority of human beings: Those who are—as Pascal puts it in his Pensées, —“so made that they cannot believe.” ; …there must be respect for those who simply can’t bring themselves to find meaning in phrases like “the […]
Read MoreBiblical Miracles – Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG, How they scare you, What to tell your children about god
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Christopher Hithcens debating Dinesh Dsouza; …debunks Christian Miracles…. ridicules Biblical claims. It’s immoral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they will only believe in nonsense that they can be saved. It’s immoral! The totalitarian concept of the afterlife. …not until Jesus, meek and […]
Read MoreBible verses: the bacilli are ever lurking…
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG, Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Exodus 35:2 kill sabath day violators Deut 21:18-21 kill disobedient teenagers Lefiticus 20:13 death to homosexuals Deut 22:13-21 kill non-virgins who marry
Read Morechristopher hichens …in a debate — transcendence is the goal.
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what we have to be talking about is …transcendence, how do we, as a civilization and a culture, retain what is of value and of beauty and of instruction in the contributions gifted to us by the past from the years, decades, centuries of faith, while discarding the superstition the theocracy the censorship the torture […]
Read MoreOpen Letter to Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens, Dog BLOG
Dear Mr. Hitchens, THANK YOU sincerely for The Portable Atheist. It has armed me with knowledge and has become my favorite book to read in church every week. I had to re-cover it, for obvious reasons; but it is as thoroughly read and marked up as any bible in the room. I’m a mormon-atheist. I […]
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