A Review of Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great – Summary
The following is an outline of my review of Christopher Hitchens’, “God is not Great” Part I – Chapter One The definition of Atheism. Do “the faithful” commit more crimes? Are atheist dogmatic? Part II – Chapter One the “four irreducible objections to religious faith.” Religion and sex Part III – Chapter One. Do believers […]
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Listen to the MP3 Chapter sixteen of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” deals with a question, one now routinely raised by the neo-atheists, of whether religion is child abuse. Hitchens starts with, “the imponderably large question. How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by […]
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Listen to the MP3 This week I conclude my discussion of the development of secular thought following the holocaust by looking at one final disturbing trend. So far I have looked at how in the attempt to maintain a belief in Human Rights apart from a belief in God, equal in the eyes of God […]
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Listen to the MP3 This week I continue my discussion of the development of secular thought following the holocaust. To briefly summarize, the Holocaust had its roots in the attempt to apply the principles of evolution to society, from which the sciences of Social Darwinism and Eugenics flowed. These new sciences were rightly rejected […]
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Listen to the MP3 In my review of Christopher Hitchens’ “God Is Not Great” I was discussing the relationship of reason to evil, which has taken me beyond the scope of Hitchens’ book. So I have decided to make this an independent series of posts, and will return to my review of Hitchens’ book […]
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