Christopher Hitchens says that religion “should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.” Hitchens is quick to point out of course that Christians themselves should not be treated this way; it’s Christianity he hates. (which is akin to “supporting the troops” — but not the war.) Hitchens leaves no room for doubt as to his […]
Read MoreAt first it was argued that God put the fossil bones in the earth so people’s faith could be tested. Nice try; didn’t last long. Then the various attempts that go on to still try and ban the good news of evolution.
Read MoreIt will not do to say, in reply to this, that the lord moves in mysterious ways. Those who dare to claim to be his understudies and votaries and interpreters must either accept the cruelty and the chaos or disown it: they cannot pick and choose between the warmly benign and the frigidly indifferent.
Read MoreChristopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder, January 26, 2009 “…I can assert; i can ask you to consider that the person in charge of this is … very incompetent, very tinkering, very capricious, or very very cruel. I think that our moralities are innate, our ethics are innate to us, as […]
Read MoreAyn Rand has a knack for making one re-examine one’s premises. Have you ever heard of anyone stopping the conversation short, on commandments, to say that commandments themselves are immoral? She says: Hard to argue with: “The moral is the chosen, not the forced.” I’ve always thought that being obedient to a god who will […]
Read MoreHitchens is fine with people having religion, As long as you don’t want your religion taught to my children in school, given a government subsidy, or imposed on me by violence, …you are fine by me. This is a statement that EVERYONE should agree with, yet some sects obviously do not.
Read MoreI don’t mind if my nieghbor believes in fifteen gods or in none. He neither by that breaks my leg nor picks my pocket. — Thomas Jefferson
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How can you tell a god-fearing person that their belief is childish and silly? I’m sure that using the words “childish and silly” is a non-starter. But how do you do it? I love the Beatles song “Imagine.” — John Lenin, who obviously knew from experience that one cannot tell another, straight out, that there […]
Read MoreAyn Rand is spinning in her grave from the way religious republicans conveniently invoke her name like a brand to get voters (in the 2012 election). And the media is playing along, reporting that VP-candidate Paul Ryan, who is very religious, is also an Ayn Rand fan. I keep wondering why none of the media […]
Read More anti-theistAnn’s article in the Skeptical Inquirer has a header paragraph that’s a beautiful message: It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s […]
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