Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXVIII
Listen to the MP3 In my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” I have finally reached chapter 17. At this chapter Hitchens has finished his main arguments against religion, the vast majority of which were examples of religious people behaving badly. Of course this leads to a natural question of what […]
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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 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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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. There is of course, as Hitchens points out a long list of Christians, to use Hitchens term, misbehaving. But as I said last time, there are deeper […]
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Listen to the MP3 At the end of chapter ten of his book “God Is Not Great,” Christopher Hitchens has a summation more fitting of his book as a whole, then of the chapter. He writes of the lost of belief in what he labels as his “secular faith.” “Thus,” he writes, “dear reader, if […]
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