Archive for December, 2008

Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXVI

Elgin Hushbeck -

Listen to the MP3 In Chapter fifteen of his book “God Is Not Great,” Christopher Hitchens tries to make the case that “Religion is not just amoral, but positively immoral.”(pg 205)  Last time I examined his claims for the first three of his points  and ended by pointing out that, while I can see why […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXV

Elgin Hushbeck -

Listen to the MP3 In my extended review of Christopher Hitchens’ book “God Is Not Great,” I have reached chapter fourteen, “There Is No ‘Eastern’ Solution.”    That Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism and all other eastern religions get but a single chapter, and relatively small chapter at that, demonstrates that Hitchens main concern is with the […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXIV

Elgin Hushbeck -

Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and the question of whether religion makes people behave.   The core of his argument seems to be that religious people do at time behave very badly, while some noted atheists have behave quite nicely.  Therefore religion […]

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