…For example, the Bible is rife with vileness evidenced by stories of sexual exploitation, mass murder and arbitrary mayhem. How do we harmonize this fact with …an all-knowing God? While many have undertaken to answer this question even in erudite fashion, I found their answers lacking. Once I concluded that the Bible was a thoroughly […]
Read MoreOne hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! (Bernard Marx’s comments …on the effects of state-sponsored sleep teaching.) “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m […]
Read MoreHitchens’ summary argument is brilliant and wide spanning; watch the first part.
Read MoreI 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 MoreQ: 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 MoreQ: …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 More(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 MoreThe title of this poem, Aubade is interesting — the word aubade refers to (1.) a song at dawn (serenade …is at evening); or perhaps the meaning is (2.) a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn. Either way, it’s a compelling juxtaposition, given the title. And spelling out an obvious raison […]
Read MoreChristopher 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 MoreWarning from title page: Don’t be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma! [ 118 ] – – – – Verse 1: All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies. [ 4 ] – – – – Verses 2-4 (?): In the beginning, […]
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