2 Christopher Hitchens vs. Al Sharpton

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Description: At the LA Times Book Festival. Sharpton gets intellectually pwned.
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richardthripp ::: Favorites Hitchens demeans Christians. In his view they cannot think for themselves and read the Bible & attend church, not because they choose to, but out of stupidity. Hitchens has become a citizen of the U.S., a nation whose Constitution is based on the Bible. It provides for self-sovereignty, property rights, freedom of speech and worship. Hitch is an ingrate. 07-09-22 23:09:43 __________________________________________________
richardthripp ::: Favorites I said that those who assail religion treat the pious as drones. People worship because they want to. The problem with "atheism" is that it worships science. It preaches no moral absolutes. It's pragmatic. "Atheists" can't say why murder is wrong. I use quotes because "atheism" and "atheists" don't exist amongst men. The terms are false ones. 07-09-22 22:57:07 __________________________________________________
jellylegs4200 ::: Favorites What? You start by saying that he offers no alternatives to religion and then go on to say that religious people are treated as drones? What would you call somebody who has no argument to defend their position other than "well then, what's the alternative"?? How's this for an alternative: interpret the world for yourself. Or, if you must have someone to look to for guidance, check Richard Dawkins' work. You'll find he provides a very compelling alternative indeed. 07-09-22 22:42:21 __________________________________________________
richardthripp ::: Favorites Condemnation of religion, or organized superstition, is nothing new. Hitchens, like all the rest, give us no alternative to religion. They degrade the pious as being nothing more than mindless drones. The victors of the French revolution, who only won because their predecessors funded our revolution, attempted to make France a humanists' paradise. They succeeded only in driving the Christians underground. Hitchens offers nothing. 07-09-22 13:38:03 __________________________________________________
jellylegs4200 ::: Favorites Why is it that all atheistic thinkers should have to be meek, cowering individuals, stutteringly putting forth their arguments, in the face of the enormous, bloated brashness of the religious zealots? Especially when educated atheists usually have much more solid arguments to begin with? You have to be a showman to make people listen. All the best religious zealots know this. 07-09-22 11:45:27 __________________________________________________
richardthripp ::: Favorites It's not Hitchen's message or opinion of theism that I have qualms with. It's his rude delivery. He's coached, it's an act, it sells books to the nation's public libraries. Hitchens has risen above the tired pedantic philosophers with his bombastic presentations. He's a showman. 07-09-21 01:21:38 __________________________________________________
TheInnerCynic ::: Favorites If one is an atheist one can still have a good moral code the argument by Sharpton was pissweak at best 07-09-17 14:27:54 __________________________________________________
darknewday197 ::: Favorites Al Sharpton proves once again he is an idiot. I'm Black and I am embarrassed by him. 07-09-16 21:05:55 __________________________________________________
pagoda11 ::: Favorites About the debate: I was just crawling out my skin waiting for Hitchens to address the primary weakness in Sharptons's argument, and that is: Someone's "feeling" of a God is derivative of the mainstream, religious teachings of which that person was brought up on. In this case it happens to be the sort of monotheism we're all so familiar with. That said, Hitchen's attack on scripture and authority is valid. 07-09-15 03:52:05 __________________________________________________
IaintNoGood ::: Favorites Al does not make a very good argument in regards to morality and slavery. Ironically, Christianity had more to do with keeping slavery the status quo, than any other world view. Al needs to "ax" the question, " what made slavery right, what made the owning of persons righteous?" Was it atheism? Was it agnocism? Was it Hinduuism? NO, it was Christianity. 07-09-06 02:00:06 __________________________________________________