#christopher hitches

[steblynkaagain]

Intelligence Squared  - The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World 

interesting debates but predictable result lol

[patrickbrianmooney]

You seem to have grasped the point that there is something idiotic about those who believe that consensus (to give the hydra-headed beast just one of its names) is the highest good. Why do I use the offensive word 'idiotic'? For two reasons that seem good to me; the first being my conviction that human beings do not, in fact, desire to live in some Disneyland of the mind, where there is an end to striving and a general feeling of contentment and bliss. This would be idiocy in its pejorative sense; the Athenians originally employed the term more lightly, defining as idiotis any man who was blandly indifferent to public affairs.

Christopher Hitchens, third of the Letters to a Young Contrarian (pp. 19-20 in ISBN 0-465-03032-7)

[black-atheists]

Atheism is a necessary condition for emancipation of the mind, but it's not a sufficient one. You can free yourself from superstition and still end up a nihilist or a hedonist or a Stalinist. What's innate in our species isn't the fault of religion. But the bad things that are innate in our species are strengthened by religion and sanctified by it. The fact is, we are a mammalian species one half-chromosome away from chimpanzees, and it shows. Curing ourselves of religion is only a small step along the road. Fortunately, our brains seem to be evolving.

-Christopher Hitchens

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This is what I do in my free time...or all of the time.

[outofthedarkness]

The Philosophy Hate List

Maybe this goes with the territory of studying philosophy, but I have a lot of philosopher-enemies. There are people I really disagree with, people I think are jerks, and people who are both. So I decided to make a list of my top 5 enemies. The order was a little tricky to pin down, but I think this is the most accurate:

Richard Dawkins

Christopher Hitchens

Ayn Rand

St. Thomas Aquinas

G.W.F. Hegel

Notice how four out of five are (to some degree) rationalists. GEE, I WONDER IF JEREMY HATES RATIONALISM TOO.

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[chillingbetweenworlds-blog]

‎"I have been called arrogant in my time and hope to earn that title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit." ~Christopher Hitchens