Christopher Hitchens: A Perspective on Religion
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Added: Dec-17-2011 Occurred On: Dec-16-2011
By: CriticalThinker
In: World News, Religion
Tags: christopher hitchens, athiest, religion
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Views: 1457 | Comments: 67 | Votes: 7 | Favorites: 6 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 2
By: CriticalThinker
In: World News, Religion
Tags: christopher hitchens, athiest, religion
Marked as: approved
Views: 1457 | Comments: 67 | Votes: 7 | Favorites: 6 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 2
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The faithful may start apologizing below. Take as many spaces as you need. We won't judge.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByCriticalThinker (3951.02) 
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@CriticalThinker Prepare for the thumbs down. Ignorance is in the masses
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByMikeNovember (331.80) 
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@MikeNovember
Thumbs down are a symbolic affirmation of ignorance. I expect 90%.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByCriticalThinker (3951.02) 
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Well on ll it can be a mark of honour.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysimcal (294.60) 
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@MikeNovember Hmm me thinks I have to calibrate my comments for the truly devote.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByMikeNovember (331.80) 
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He will be missed
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByZardoz003 (1575.92) 
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@PlutoPorkPie
Here. Here. I hope he rots. Good riddance.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysamjag (176.20) 
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@samjag From the pedestal of ignorance
your statement speaks volumes about you
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByZardoz003 (1575.92) 
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My statement tells you I don't like him. Problem?
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysamjag (176.20) 
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I cant't hear any of what they are saying because my music is too loud =/
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByMr-ET (8.10) 
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Humanity lost as much with his passing as one loses when flushing the toilet. Good riddance.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysamjag (176.20) 
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I am of Hitchens' way of thinking although I do believe there is some positive value to religion. I think this is an aspect of religion that Hitchens intentionally overlooks or dismisses (i.e., charity of spirit, etc.). That said, the end result is that religion has done more harm than good.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByUSA1 (3680.74) 
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Humans, as a species, are inherently generous and charitable. It is a survival necessity to keep the community vibrant. Hitchens does not dismiss this, but embraces this.
His argument is that false beliefs have polluted simple and logical reasoning that have corrupted society.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByCriticalThinker (3951.02) 
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This is the same filth that religious people constantly pour out: the fact that religious people have more morals. It is false. Religion does NOT give any more morality to the individual. Instead it robs him of the capacity for introspection.
So the challenge Hitchens has put forward remains unbroken: Name a moral action or thing said by a religious person that could NOT have been made/said by an atheist = you will not find any. Name a immoral action or thing said by a person because of More..
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bydonnoshit (47.60) 
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First, I wasn't making an argument.
Second, anyone who ends with "Your argument is null" already deserves 5 wanker points.
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No. I agree, makes a change. lol
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysimcal (294.60) 
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@USA1 Good use of the word "wanker". Is it catching on over your side of the pond?
Posted Dec-17-2011 Byfingerbangst (32.88) 
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R.I.P. brother.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bymr_gunaseelan (259.40) 
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One of the flag bearers for atheism, now departed. Don't know who will fill the gap as he will be a hard act to follow. Bye Hitch.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysimcal (294.60) 
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What Hitch left behind is the philosophy of not what to think, but how to think. It is up to all of us to bear the standard.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByCriticalThinker (3951.02) 
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@simcal he is now in heaven living his dreams, amazed and dumbfounded.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByNoQQ (200.50) 
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On a point of principle he would refuse to enter. lol.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bysimcal (294.60) 
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Did I miss the section on the condemnation of Stalin and Mao and the other atheist regimes responsible for the deaths of millions?
Posted Dec-17-2011 Byvicsemprini (1256.68) vicsemprini View Channel Send Message
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Dictators, in the name of secular humanism, have killed scores of millions of people throughout history! Hitchens had a big problem with the Judeo-Christian stance on homosexuality and since he was compelled to commit such acts, started his defiance using "all" religions as a smokescreen.
Posted Dec-18-2011 ByJohn Coleman (192.70) 
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I might also add his pettiness about Mother Theresa. He didn't like the fact that she took money from dictators to feed impoverished people. How dare she?!
Posted Dec-18-2011 ByJohn Coleman (192.70) 
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So that is all you got out of it, mate lift your game
Posted Dec-18-2011 Byseaghn (283.96) 
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But I will say a prayer for the guy's soul.
Posted Dec-18-2011 ByJohn Coleman (192.70) 
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the bolsheviks were secular and fervently anti religion. they murdered 50 million russians and eastern europeans. as an atheist myself it is annoying to watch militant atheists act in the same way as religious fanatics.
Posted Dec-17-2011 Bypatriots_act (327.30) patriots_act View Channel Send Message
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Just because a carp is a fish doesn't mean all fish are therefore carp, brother.
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@patriots_act
He wasn't talking about them. He was talking about German and Japanese fascism.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByPH-DEE (388.74) 
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Since so many people regret his passing, i cant judge anything by the video because i missed it all. He might turn out to be the first internet author to win a nobel prize post-homuniosuteley (SP). does anybody have a book title list.
Posted Dec-17-2011 ByHitler_Is_Amazing (2950.98) 
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@Tehran1
What's the penalty for illicit hooch consumption in Iran these days? Do they stone you, hang you, or just cut off your pouring hand?
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